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WRITING PROMPT WEEK 2
How Can You Be the Positive Impact in Your Community This Week?
What Matters to You? What Kind of Ripple Effect Can You Have?
Mary Pipher states in Writing To Change the World, “When you take pen to paper with the goal of making a difference, you join a community of people for whom words and issues matter.”
What matters to you in your community and how can you be a positive impact? It can start with a small gesture. Generally, if you are intentional to do small gestures consistently, they will have a larger impact and a greater ripple effect.
What does that look like for you? Maybe it’s connected to your writing. How can that instill change in the people in your community? What message would you like to be remembered for?
“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” — Elie Wiesel
Think about some of the great change agents of your lifetime: Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Theresa of Avila, Pearl S. Buck, Mahatma Gandhi, Toni Morrison, Latasha Morrison, Hildegard of Bingen, etc.
Maybe this list includes you. Maybe this list includes the young girl who feeds the houseless in her…
