I just got back yesterday from an amazing weekend at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The whole weekend they focused on one phrase, "Setting People Free". It got me thinking how you could help set someone free. It got me thinking that there has got to be something small that you can do that will cause freedom to happen in someone else's life.
An example I have is that there was a massive push up contest this weekend. You're probably wondering what doing push ups has got to do with leadership. A push up is something small that anyone can do. It's the why behind the small thing that made all the difference. We had been challenged 3 months ago to go out and raise awareness and funds to help fight human trafficking. Did you know that slavery still exists today? There are over 300,000 kids your age in slavery in the United States today. We learned of a group who's mission is to go out and rescue those kids from slavery and make sure that they are kept safe until they are old enough and strong enough to go out on their own. They challenged us to raise $100,000. The group brought in cash $737,000 this weekend with more coming in still. That may seem like a huge amount of money to you. I challenged my daughter's youth group and they did a push up challenge and they brought in $1847 the night of the push up challenge that grew to $2838 by the time we left the next day to go to the convention and there's still money coming in for the cause. The small things that we can do will multiply. If you do the things for good, they will multiply in good beyond what you can imagine. If you do the things for evil, they will multiply in ways you would never want to imagine. So I guess my thoughts here would be, what small things are you doing with good intentions that can multiply and spread and eventually change the world just like these few push ups everyone did for just a dollar a push up. Dream big and then have someone help you dream bigger and believe that it can come true. All it takes is a step of faith that it will all work out. Think about it.
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