Daily Gratitude: “We can never know the impact any small deed will have until we finish carrying it out.”

There’s a story about a young man whose village was struck by a drought. As a result he couldn’t afford to go to school to study science. He found a book in the library that taught him about windmills.

He spent much time at the local scrapyard. Using scrap metal, tractor parts and bicycle halves, William forged a crude yet operable windmill generator, an unlikely contraption that eventually powered small lights at his home and charged a neighbor’s cell phone. A second machine powered a water pump that could battle the drought and famine which loomed with every season.

There’s many lessons in this story but I particularly like that he used so many things that had been discarded. They became useful in another’s hands.

He didn’t give up. He built a small wind generator, just a small thing – at first. Then it became a solution to the village’s problem as well as his own.

He was determined. He did something small. Little did he know that eventually it would help his entire group of people AND prompt a company to pay his education.

Never stop doing something you believe in just because others may laugh or not see any potential in it. Keep on going. Look around and see what you can use!!!