I have a small life which I thoroughly enjoy. It involves buying groceries with my wife. And, that usually involves going by our
favorite donut shop to grab an apple fritter and sit and talk. And, that stop typically involves looking at the
latest new born pics of the couple who owns the shop.
I love to putter in my yard.
I enjoy building small kayak type boats.
And, I like taking my wife for dinner, after work - and breakfast on off
days. And, I love a thousand other
things which don’t really amount to a hill of beans in the larger scheme of
things. But, all in all, it is a
pleasant little life.
However, I learned long ago that there has to be more than
just my small, everyday little life, because “little” tends to become empty if
it’s not connected to “big.” And, I actually
found the door to “big” some years back, too.
It is a vital, daily relationship with the living Jesus. Since then, He has constantly challenged me to
embrace the bigger life, a life that involves something larger than the present
moment, my small surroundings, my health issues, and my little hobbies and happy
times.
Rather, His guidance, and sometimes insistence, connects me
to the larger life issues of character growth, and principled living, and the values
and truth of my Creator, and the needs of my neighbors, and my society, and
even my world. So, I still enjoy and find meaning in my
little life. But, praise God, my little life
has not made of me a little person, because He has connected me to the “big
stuff” too.
