A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. Pascal.
Be the “little thing” in someone’s life today.
Small is under rated these days. We think bigger, faster and cheaper will bring ultimate satisfaction in our lives.
What a trap for our personal lives, families and our communities.
I am convinced one of life’s greatest blessings is the ability to find joy and pleasure in our often mundane daily efforts.
It is often the small simple offerings that are woven into our daily lives that make the tapestry magnificent. Opportunities are all around you. That is why starting simply but simply starting is the ticket to lasting fulfillment.
A good friend recently recommend the best selling book The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference: Authors Thaler and Koval. This excellent book is a clear example of how we need the miracle of a perspective change. It isn’t just the grand and lofty deeds that bring the grandest changes. It is often the small deeds and simple works that grow into the largest lifegiving impact.
Sometimes the great miracle in our lives is just seeing something we always knew to be true but by seeing it differently it changes everything about the way we live.
Start simply but simply start. Begin today by…
Telling your children what they do right. Affirm the good…grow the good.
Share with your spouse once again exactly why you married him. Affirm the good… grow the good.
In fact while your at it let your parents, coworkers, in laws, teachers, pastors, grocery store clerk, neighbors, siblings, and friends hear a word of lifegiving encouragement from you. Affirm the good…grow the good.
No we can’t do everything but we can do something.
We can…
Start to see.
Start to listen.
Start to value.
Yes start to see all the difference one small lifegiving act can lead to.
A perspective change truly is the greatest miracle of all.
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