This image is of a 12 year-old girl, during the Flint, Michigan water crisis of 2014. What she’s doing is inventing a a cheap, easy to build and use lead detector, to help the people of Flint.

Even though she was living a thousand miles away, in Denver, Colorado, she harnessed her unusual abilities and used them to great effect.

Undeserved suffering calls decent people to do something about it… even the young and inexperienced. What older people need to do is to help them find and use such opportunities.

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Now, before you move back to the mundane, consider how you might help a young person to discover and use their talents. This is not always an easy chore, and your odds of success in any particular attempt are probably less than fifty percent. But as they say in baseball, “Unless you swing the bat, it’s absolutely certain that you won’t hit the ball.” So, please think about this, and find ways to encourage the talents of the young.