Even the Smallest Person Can Change the Course of the Future

In The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there is one line that stands out above all the other's, and gets me every single time I watch it.

"My friends, you bow to no one." - Aragorn, King of Gondor

Tolkien wrote these books at a time when he himself saw much war and destruction as well as a glimmer of hope. When you read the trilogy, The Hobbit and The Simarillion, you find yourself in a world, called Middle Earth, that mirrors our own world today.

There is war, destruction, horror and death. But there is also, hope. Hope is something that keeps us going in the times when the darkness seems to strong.

Perhaps that is our own personal fight to drop the ring into whatever Mt. Doom represents. The battles we fight, within and without are sometimes so hard, so tiresome, so painful, that we want to give up, let the darkness close in around us.

But there is a light that keeps us going, moving, doing, trying, pushing on when we think we have nothing left. When despair tries to take over in the many guises it has, we fight it.

Even the smallest ::fill in the blank:: Can Change the Course of the Future.

While Galadrial was speaking to Frodo, trying to comfort him on his own journey, that statement can be made to fit any situation. Because no matter what the burden is - if we remember that it only takes one small pebble to make a ripple in the ocean - then we can do anything we set out to accomplish.

While we may not have the entire world watching and waiting - holding the lives of millions in our hand - we do make decisions that can change the course of the lives we touch as well as our own.

When the going gets to be to much, remember something Samwise said to Frodo, "... I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"

To each of you, who have helped me when times were dark and stayed around when I couldn't always be here...

Namaste - I bow to the divine in you. And know, I will be a light if you need one.

Remember, we all make a difference, no matter the size. It's how we choose to do so and what path we choose to walk that leads us to the light - which always overpowers the dark.

We all make a difference.

~C