{"id":23175,"date":"2023-01-26T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/?p=23175"},"modified":"2023-01-26T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:12:27","slug":"long-enough-to-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/long-enough-to-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Long enough to make a difference!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Rev. Paul Graves<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Katie, Claire and Andy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been too long since I\u2019ve written a letter to you. Our weekly Zoom visits are terrific, but writing to you lets me reflect more deeply on some values that are worth nurturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m writing this letter on MLK Day. I hope you spent some time reading King\u2019s quotes and a few speeches. They\u2019ve inspired us, moved us to be better people who pursue the journey toward justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this quote from \u201cStride Toward Freedom\u201d written in 1958: \u201cTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.\u201d To me, the presence of justice must fill the vacuum created by the absence of tension \u2013 in all situations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"20944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/small-changes-big-differences\/insights_nuturingelders_paul\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greaternw.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul.jpg?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A570 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1263874820&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rev. Paul Graves&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greaternw.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul.jpg?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greaternw.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greaternw.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greaternw.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/INSIGHTS_NuturingElders_paul.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rev. Paul Graves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m also aware that The Spokesman-Review will publish this letter on Jan. 23, just four days before Claire\u2019s 23rd birthday! I hope your graduate school classmates help you enjoy your day, Claire. But I also hope they and you \u2013 and your siblings \u2013 find MLK ways to make even a small difference in each other and somewhere in the world around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 14 years ago, I saw a small poster on a church wall. Its simple message still catches my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ME: God, how long will I live?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOD: Long enough to make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as I can remember, something inside of me has nudged my heart to make a healthy difference in someone else\u2019s life. Not so much in my own, but in someone else\u2019s life. It\u2019s no surprise, kids that making some effort has always made a healthy difference in my own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so proud of you three today because I see you all trying to make healthy differences in other people\u2019s lives in what you are doing right now \u2013 Katie in your outreach work, Claire and Andy in your schools. You\u2019ve learned well what your parents have taught you about respecting people and trying to improve people\u2019s lives in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another quote from Martin Luther King makes very good sense to me as I think of how you \u2013 and everyone \u2013 can make small differences that lead to potentially significant changes in ourselves and in society:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMake a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s from a speech King delivered at the March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cnoble struggle for equal rights\u201d is a phrase worth remembering. I know only a few of the instances when you\u2019ve stood up to someone who disrespected another person for some reason. I also know you\u2019ve stood up for and with a person being bullied or disrespected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those instances may seem minor in comparison to what you see others do. So don\u2019t compare your efforts with anyone else\u2019s!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing is senseless competition, particularly when it involves our efforts to treat others as equals \u2013 because they are equals to us and everyone else. In daily, ordinary ways, let\u2019s each remember to do what is healthy for someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That simple act may make a bigger difference to that person than we could have expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So back to that pithy little saying on the church wall: In case you hadn\u2019t noticed, I\u2019m considerably older than you. If God does desire, we will live long enough to make a difference, I\u2019ve had many more difference-making opportunities than you have, simply because of my age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my opportunities are no more, no less, important than yours. 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