{"id":247,"date":"2007-04-25T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2007-04-25T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T11:04:18","slug":"change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Change the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Clapton sings a song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Change the World<\/em><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that I really like. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a song that suggests that people could see his real thoughts and deep within his heart if he were in control of things. He says he could actually make the world a better place\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6if he could just change the world.<\/p>\n

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I was reminded of someone from my past yesterday. She had that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153change the world attitude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a missionary who lived most of her adult life in Cuba and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

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Eulelia was quite a determined woman. She was insistent there was nothing to stop her mission of helping others learn how to read by using the Bible and other religious materials which were translated in their native language. She was passionate about raising money for printing costs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the major expense of her ministry.<\/p>\n

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In the 1950\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Castro took over Cuba and ran the missionaries out. She was there when that happened and found herself in another country \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Costa Rica \u00e2\u20ac\u201c shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

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It was right before Castro took over Cuba when a Greenville, SC acquaintance visited Eulelia. They rode donkeys from one place to another. Eulelia shared her passion of helping the people learn to read so they could share their faith with others as they taught friends and relatives to read as well.<\/p>\n

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Ironically enough, I was in a meeting yesterday as a distinguished grey headed woman and I started to talk. The more we talked, the more we realized we had some connections in the past. Turns out her minister was the father of my deceased husband in Greenville. It also turns out that she was the one who visited Eulelia in Cuba those many years ago.<\/p>\n

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Today this lady works with a program for at risk youth in her community. She is known to be passionate about her work and extremely energetic, just like Eulelia was those many years ago on their visit together.<\/p>\n

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Do you think you are just one person and you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really change the world?<\/p>\n

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If you have the passion and drive to make a difference like both these ladies, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need anything else. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the passion for making a difference, righting a wrong, or encouraging people to look at things a bit differently that can leave a legacy of change. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take magic or waiting for something that may never happen. It just takes determination, hard work, and someone who is not scared to tackle an issue.<\/p>\n

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Eulelia has been gone for some time now. She discovered she had a disease that slowly destroyed her body. When she found out she was ill, she could have stayed here in our modern hospitals to deal with it. Instead, she went back to be among her people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6her friends in the remote villages of Costa Rica. That is where she lived\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that is where she died\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6with the people she had come to love and those who loved her deeply for her ministry.<\/p>\n

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Eulelia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy will live on. She was a simple but determined woman. A woman determined to change the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one person at a time.<\/p>\n

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If we could all live our lives that way, what positive changes could be made in this world?<\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you live life passionately and with a determination to change the world one step at a time. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be just one of the bunch. Venture out to make the world a better place. Live a life that leaves an example for others. Work around those things that keep you from being all you and others can be. Change the world with a positive passion and enthusiasm for life.<\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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