A Personal Solution to Overwhelming Problems

In the face of overwhelming problems, one thing we can do is hold fast to our moral principles, especially the most central and important ones, like loving God and our neighbors and keeping the Ten Commandments. Maintaining our personal standards of righteousness may not, by itself, solve all the world's problems, but it should help keep us from becoming part of those problems, and it may even help us become part of the solutions. Exercising and advocating morality will help reduce crime and suffering, even if our efforts are too small to make a perceptible difference. Those efforts can add up. The more people in the world choose to be righteous, the better off the world will be. And it can start with us. We can be good, and we can be good examples in encouraging others to be good. We each have a limited influence and a limited sphere of influence, but when we each do our part, we can help improve the lives and behavior of those around us. We can make the world better by making part of the world better, even if that part is limited to ourselves.