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The Little Picture

11/8/2023

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What do you remember about being little? Do you remember how the ceilings seemed way way up high? Do you recall leaning up against an adult’s knee, or nestling against their body and feeling their largeness compared to you?
Sometimes it’s really helpful to remember we are small. Yeah, you might be six feet tall, but it’s likely you could push your body through three-foot-wide hole (ergo - not that big). Meditating on our puniness is not our natural proclivity. We like BIG! But our awareness of our true scale pulls us closer what’s real.
When Jesus became human, he went small. He entered the world in walking time. He engaged people in slow conversations. He performed miracles one by one.
Jesus models a small-scale spirituality that had huge impact. Awareness of my little place in the world is a solace. Jesus worked locally. Even God focused on the people, the places, the creatures, and comforts available at hand. So, then shouldn’t we?
As you move through your week, I encourage you to stay small. Your devices will invite you to pretend you can know it all, do it all, own it all. But you can’t. Your news feed will invite you to travel to every place of misery and hold every opinion. But your Divine Parent would much prefer that you stay right where you are and nestle in. Mundane as it is, the world around you is where you make the biggest difference. God is waiting for you to climb into the comfort of your smallness and the Divine bigness. May we together feel love, joy and peace in little spaces we occupy here and now. 


--Pastor Rebecca
1 Comment
Michelle West
11/8/2023 11:24:16 pm

Thank you for this blog.
I needed to read it.
Even though, I have the
desire to make a bigger
impact and touch more
lives, your message is
a reminder, the small
things we do are so
necessary. The small
acts and deeds make a
difference, even when we
do not see it.
Thank you for this blog.
Have a wonderful week.
Little Picture!❤🙏🌺

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