A bus driver became annoyed with what he saw. At the end of his run lay an open field which local "litter bugs turned into an unofficial dump. The driver had at least a seven-minute layover there several times a day. One day, he decided to get to get out of the bus and spend his few minutes of waiting time picking up a few of the bottles and cans.
The next day he took a long a little bigger sack and some gloves and during each layover he gathered up a little more of the trash. After a week of doing this, he was so encouraged by the change he had made in the field that he decided to spend all his free moments cleaning up the site. He worked all through the winter months, and when spring came he decided to sow some flower seeds on the land.
By the end of the summer, some of his regular riders actually began riding with him to the end of the line just to see what the driver had acomplished. He had turned a dump into a meadow, just a few minutes at a time, and the entire community benefitted.
Our neighborhoods are only as good as those who live in them. One step, one minute, one day at a time you can make yours an even better place for you and your neighbors to call home!
(this story came out of "God's Little Devotional Bible for Women" [don't ask] which I am reading. It's set up so that you can read the entire Bible in year. Today I read February 5th!)
God bless!
Tim
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