Today, the world is in my palm.

This morning my mom and her friend Jacki Zehner brought me to a breakfast. A 7:30 AM breakfast presented by Auburn Seminary, honoring women that change the world.

We heard from Kayrita Anderson and Deborah Richardson who are putting an end to trafficking young women as sex slaves. Minerva Carcaño who is giving a voice to immigrants. Jensine Larsen who created a website that’s given women from all over the world the power to be their own messenger. Gail T. Reimer who created and is still developing an archive of Jewish women so generation in the future will be able to be inspired from those who stood against adversity and paved our futures. And the final woman honored was Chely Wright, the gay christian country singer from Kansas who found the courage to tell her story so others could accept their own.

At the end of the inspirational tears, a bright faced, energy filled woman got on stage. She told us to open our hands. She instructed us to place a marble in our palm and she said. “This is the world”  She closed our palm around the tiny world and went on,

“The world is one. The world is ours to change. Now the only thing you have to do, is hold onto this marble and when someone inspires you to be greater than you could imagine. Tell them to open their palm, and give them your world to change.”

I walked away with the world in my pocket and a craving to give it to you.