Making a Difference

My morning started beflore daylight, when, not sleeping I got up to read myself back to sleep. However upon finishing reading I noticed it had become light enough to take a morning walk, and enjoy the peace and beauty of this place.

I set out with an intention to walk to the other end of White Sand Beach and back, to see how long it would take. A Somewhat disturbing contrast to the beauty, was how much trash was strewn.

Well, in living this go with the flow lifestyle, I am ever present to any and all opportunities and inspirations, and one surely presented itself. My morning reading had opened and reminded me of the power and value in making a difference, and not buying into, ‘that’s just the way it is’ (Lynne Twist).

In that moment, there before me was a girl with a sack picking up some rubbish, In that milisecond of decision time, I overrode my origional intention to keep going as I was nearly half way back, instead stopped to join her. Moments later as she went her way and I mine,..now with a handfull of rubbish (treasures thrown out and returned by the tide), I was gifted a large trash of a sack to put what I’d gathered into - Now my new mission became to fill the sack and that would be a good deed done for the day.

Without any words a couple of people started to do the same, coming up to me with the trash treasure they too had found, helping me fill my sack. As I kept walking homeward, and picking up stuff thrown idily, I found myself in a more mindful, serviceful place…and so too I imagine did others as more miraculously joined in this new and silent reverence for nature.

The more people joined us the more fun it became. A worker whose job it was to take care of ‘just his patch’ was drawn much beyond his usual duty, bringing the now dozen of us more baskets and sacks and taking away our collection. What had started as one person and a sack had became more than a dozen people and a truckload full! Looking back, we had amazingly cleaned a good kilometer of beach.

I got to chatting with one Thai woman from ‘the North’ who told me she had gone to America to study for her MBA in business, married an American, now living there with a child. She introduced me to her brother and two sisters who had simply, organically, heartfully, become part of the magic of making a difference.

Today I wasn’t looking for heart stones…though I did find two to give away to the MBA woman and her brother. Today, whilst not looking I found…more than 50 Inspirations - 50 kilos of trash as treasure. More connection to the heart and soul of people than I could have dreamed, more inspiration than I can express herein. I found not heartstones, but heartsouls, and my heart heaves a greatFULLness.