Loaves and Fishes

People say, "What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time. We can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will
vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and the fishes.
- Dorothy Day

Often people (including ourselves) wonder what one person can do in light of all the massive problems facing our society and the world today. Poverty, global warming, war, debt, divorce rates, depression, our inner cities...the list continues but to one who has faith in Jesus and who knows the hope we have for our future it comes down to being faithful with what we are given, in the place we are, during the time we have. We have often wondered at the simple truths we find in this way of life and the simplicity it allows in our life. As we seek to live out our faith in the West Grove and to affect the world one person at a time we are encouraged by Dorothy Day's quote time and again so we thought we would share it with you as well.