Only humans Ask This Limiting Question.
Do you?

I was feeling very uninspired and depressed, and gazing out my window, I asked myself, “What difference will it make?”

What I was really asking was, “Why bother? No one cares, and it won’t matter if I do it or not, anyway.”

That day, I was only 16. It was the first time I remember asking that question, but I have asked it many more times since then.

What I was asking that day was if anyone cared. Would anything change? Was I worth anything?

Yes, it’s a question. But it acts as a barrier designed to shut down creativity and value.

Watching nature, I know that question is not part of Life.

The tree doesn’t ask if growing will make a difference. The butterfly doesn’t ask if it should start flying. Fish don’t ask why they attempt to swim up dangerous waters, and the flower doesn’t ask why it bothers blooming.

Only humans ask that question.

Doesn’t this prove that it is not a question designed to help but to harm? It is a question designed to shut down our expression.

If I wonder why there is “something” that doesn’t want any of us to express our unique selves, then I am giving it a power it doesn’t deserve.

Instead, let’s walk ourselves out of that question and back into the light.

When I opened my refrigerator this morning to get a drink, I looked at all the things available to me inside (including the marvel of having a refrigerator). I wanted to shout “thank you” to the person who came up with pre-washed salad, oat milk, or the wide variety of sauces in the refrigerator door—actually, I could list these kinds of things forever, couldn’t you?

We take these provisions for granted, but someone put their creative energy and time into producing them for us.

What if they had asked themselves, “What difference will it make?” and decided that it didn’t make a difference and didn’t do it?

Yes, although sometimes we can see that what we do makes a difference, truthfully, most of the time, we can’t.

That’s why sidewalks don’t get cleared of ice, people don’t come out of their houses to meet their neighbors, books don’t get written, and songs don’t get sung.

Now that we have moved into a more strengthened awareness of the world's wholeness and understand that money cannot be how we measure our value, how do we?

First, let’s be clear that the question, “What difference will it make?” when applied to who we are as valuable or not, is not coming from Love.

Each of us makes up the tapestry of expression of Life, and so every single person, everywhere, is needed to make the whole.

We all have a divine calling.

We all have our own ministry of sorts.

We all have a unique expression to share.

Just existing and expressing the Life force that we are makes a difference in others’ lives.

This truth is evident in little children. Their presence makes a difference, and we, as adults, are no different.

Our presence alone makes a difference. How we express ourselves in the world is innate in each of us.

For most of us, we need feedback and support in this expression.

However, we can’t measure our success by how many people give us feedback and support.

Instead, we can listen to what is calling us, become masters at its expression, no matter what it is, and find our pleasure and happiness in that doing.

We can also all become much better at acknowledging others who make a difference to us because it helps keep their light on as much as it helps us learn how to shine our own light.

Imagine a great big “thank you” ringing out into the world today.

That light would blast away many dark shadows that attempt to suppress expression for so many people with that dark question, “What difference will it make?”

The answer is—all the difference in the world!