Little Things

What’s on your prayer request list?

I’m willing to bet there’s a few big ticket items.

My biggies?

A dream job for my husband that he loves and provides life long financial security for us.

That my son grows up to be a great man who’s successful and contributes to making the world a better place.

That I’m the perfect mother who never looses her temper and always does the right thing.

Sure those things are all possible. God could snap his fingers and grant my every wish. It’s certainly within his power to do so. And often he does perform a miracle or do the seemingly impossible.

But even more often it’s all the little things that he attends to that really seem to make the difference.

Sometimes a request seems so small and insignificant that I feel silly praying about it. I wonder if it’s even important enough to bother God with, or I don’t even think to ask in the first place.

But nothing is insignificant to God. And all our cares and concerns, no matter how inconsequential they may seem to us, do matter to him.

I can think of several little things in the last few weeks that, though they didn’t seem that important in the grand scheme of things, I prayed about. And I got an answer.

Sometimes it’s not about being Mother of the Year. It’s just about God granting me enough patience to get through that one particularly hard day.

Sometimes it’s not about life long financial security, it’s just about having enough cash in the bank to pay that huge car repair bill.

Sometimes it’s not about my kid growing up to be a Supreme Court Justice, it’s just about him learning his ABC’s.

It’s these little blessings that get me through the day-to-day. To me all the aswers to my “little things” add up to a lot. Maybe even more than all the big things.