Live what you wish for.

The only way to feed and nourish the growth of love is by offering the love that you wish to see grow.

If you wish for more tolerance, you must live tolerance.
If you wish for more understanding, you must live understanding.
If you wish for peace, you must live peace.
If you wish for justice, you must live justice.
If you wish for compassion, you must live compassion.
If you wish for wisdom, you must live wisdom for that wisdom to grow, that compassion, justice, and acceptance to expand.

By fretting and living with fear, that fretting expands, that fear expands. When you live with judgment, that judgment expands. When you live with distrust, you are promoting distrust in all forms. What can you do when you are worried about the state of life? Contribute whatever you can that expands what you seek, and do not allow what you most wish to avoid to be an excuse for not contributing. The progress you seek is never a straight line. There are inevitable ups and downs, but you can have a definite impact on how that progress is achieved when all that you say and do reflects in very direct ways what it is you seek. It does little good to talk about the need for greater understanding and yet not seek to be more understanding. It does little good to wish for more love and compassion and yet not experience such love and compassion in your own daily interactions with others.

Therefore, you make a difference. You have an impact on everyone else. You will not change the course of history on your own, but you, in recognition of what you share that reflects your understanding of God, can indeed change the shape of what is to come and therefore redefine what others will later describe as history. There are times for you to be active. There are times for you to be more reflective. But whether active or reflective, it is your attitude, it is your approach that is of greatest importance, because that attitude can nurture your spirit, and together your spirit nurtures the evolution, the expansion of love, of God.