Even in small things

One way or another, at times I found out that life feels so mundane. Waking up, prayers, making breakfast, working (in my case, catching up with work as I am having days off now), go home, house keeping and finally taking some rest and so on. There is a temptation to think that because nothing special going on, then it is somehow a ‘not-so-important’ day.

Some people might complain how boring their days have become. No passion, just sweet and ‘regular’ repetition of things. May be you work as a teacher, or a cashier, or behind your desk with matriculation and projects, you find yourself just doing it. Yeah. Life has settled down now, and I am kind floating on it, just do what I need to do so as not to sinking. Really? Is there any meaning we can find in even so plain and so-so days? Or should we find that ‘kairos’ moment and each time moved toward perfection?

First let us think of how passionate God is when taking care of us. I mean everything He arranged for the goodness of all. Everything is in order and safety. Thank God for that. And shall we ask ourselves, how our hearts could grow cold when beauty and glory is embedded in everything. Just be there, correct. But be there with all of your heart. Tend your obedience without self-love but with ardent spirit in knowing that our holiness is being worked out in small things. It’s not all about our feelings, even though feeling is one of the parts, it is beyond our feeling. We never know that actually we entertain angels that day, when we smile and greeting people with light heart. We can become like Christ for anyone who are sent to us, again while we might not realize it.

Big or small, let us accept our obedience with the sense of God is so very interested about us. He is not called ‘The Lover of Mankind’ for no reason. He really loves us. How could we not be moved with such wonderful news? We might not ‘acrobatic’ enough to get excited all the time about things. Sometimes, we just feel OK or ‘just fine’. But remember, the workshop of our holiness moves beyond our feeling.

These little and mundane things constitute our path to holiness. Let us take the chance to grab any moment to raise our thoughts to God and to exalt Him. Even in waking up from sleep, in preparing meals, in greeting and interacting with people, in all things let us do them to glorify God. Don’t we realize, however small our part might be, we have special and unique role to make the world a better place, to be compelling invitations, to be the scent of the Kingdom of God among the people who lives around us? Think about it today.