Yes, but Amos, how does an individual's efforts influence, finally, the nations'?

An analogy: You want to turn the creek on your property in to a different bed or course. You contract to get an earthmover to do the job but he is not available until September and this is only June. So do you take a wheelbarrow out there every day and haul water to the new bed, in order to do your part? And you got your neighbors to bring their own wheelbarrows to help?

Just seems pretty hopeless to me.

The other night at music the last four of us were sitting there singing one depressed song after another and our talk in between was no better. I think I may have outlived the era I want to live in.