“I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.”

Willa Cather

I was reading through my news feed on Facebook and saw a beautiful tribute from a friend whose mother had recently passed away. She wrote about her mom, “She didn’t change the world but she changed her world. She was the sum of a million little actions and a maybe a dozen big actions that constituted a life.”

So beautifully stated. I think that it is easy to feel that if we didn’t invent penicillin, find a cure for cancer, create a foundation or leave any huge mark on this world that perhaps we simply weren’t “successful.” They say the greatest gift one can give the world is a life well lived.

My friend is spot on, it’s the sum of those million little actions and each person whose life is better because you are in it. These are the gifts that matter.

Charity Matters.

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