THE POWER OF ONE

I spent Saturday washing pill bottles. I can just see you starting to scratch your head and maybe even cocking your head in wonder. Why would she be washing pill bottles? Where did the bottles come from? How many bottles are we talking about? And what are you going to do with the clean pill bottles?

Those are all very good questions and they were all asked by me too before I went to join my woman’s club on this project. I want you to picture this, 3 of those GIANT black garbage bags filled to the top with empty pill bottles. Each bag holds approximately 1,000 bottles so we have in total around 3,000. Each bottle had to have the labels peeled off (not an easy task) and then all the glue that holds the labels on had to be soaked off (even harder task) and then they had to be washed and rinsed, and then finally they went on to the drying station. There were 14 or 15 people working on this project on Saturday from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm and only 1,000 of the bottles got completely finished.

Once we get ALL the bottles done we will be sending them to an organization that used the empty bottles by filling them with prescriptions for those in less fortunate or undeveloped countries. Somewhere in another country, our empty pill bottles will make a difference.

Seeing all the women working together Saturday somewhat reminded me of Dorcas. In Acts 9: 36-43 it tells of Tabitha, which translates to Dorcas, who was always doing good and helping the poor. What a wonderful description that would be! Dorcas became sick and died which greatly upset those whom she had helped. Peter was sent for and when he arrived he found the widows standing around crying. He ushered them out and then said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes and she sat up. Can you imagine how happy everyone was? Can you imagine how amazed they were???

This all reminded me of the story of the little boy picking up starfish on the beach and throwing them back into the ocean. Someone approached him and said, “Why are you doing that? There are thousands of starfish on the beach, you can’t possibly make a difference.” The little boy picked up a starfish and threw it back and said, “I made a difference to that one.”

We are only one person. Dorcas was only one person. But if each of us strives to make a difference in just one person’s life just think of how much good could be accomplished. That is the power of one.

Have A Great Day!