Today I am moved by many things not least the wonderful joy of being a dad! Yes, it is flipping tough at times as every parent knows when you are just really wanting them to go to sleep and they insist on pushing barriers – or when they are over excited and play wildly when they have been told to quieten down...and a million other scenarios where they challenge your patience and sanity...but then they simply wow you with awesome moments and your heart over flows with indescribable love...like this morning for me. My son was poorly these last few days...(swine flu possibly?)...but amidst a very high temperature and sickness and crying - as a parent your heart goes out and the feeling of virtual powerlessness is horrible...but then they wake up recovered and ‘shining’ like children can...and in those moments the world glows! The world radiates everything that is fine and perfect with the human race. In those moments your heart swells and you know that you would die for them and change the world if you could... And so in one of these moments I say why can’t we change the world? Out of love, why cannot we all group together and make small but significant ‘tweaks’? Out of love what could we do that is seemingly small but when compounded and done by millions of us it has huge positive impact? I know that you love...you love your family dearly especially the children and parents. You love your friends and never want harm to come to them. You love children and probably animals...and so today let’s for one tiny moment exercise some love for the planet or love for our ‘family’ in poorer countries of the world...or even for those less fortunate here. Often a voice is all it needs...like voting with our feet to encourage governments to impact pollution or actually do something about poor countries and corruption and loans etc. Like making a deliberate effort to get involved in projects that just need critical mass to become more effective such as contributing to rescue organisations that try to save endangered species or threatened forests. Think about this for a second: do we want to show our grandchildren Elephants, Tigers and Orang-utans out of coloured books because they are extinct? Do we want to share stories with loved one’s about how we used to be able to eat such things as Cod and Tuna but sadly they died out through over fishing? Do we want to tell stories about magical rain forests but regret that they too were cut down when the world didn’t act? Worst, do we want to lament when the earth has changed climate that we didn’t decide to act until it was too late and too much damage was done? This isn’t politics this is love. This isn’t politics this is thinking just a little above ‘me’. This isn’t politics this is common sense – it just needs commonly to be applied. So, for today I am swathed in those wonderful pictures my mind captured as I hugged my young son...pure wonderful love...and because of that I am going to make some small changes and hope that the compound effect of small changes with all of us means out of love for my son his world isn’t reduced because of our impact. Have an awesome day.