Something to Ponder

I saw this posted in a bathroom today (I know...weird - but that's a whole other post for an entirely different blog that I might just have to start someday) and it's been rolling around in my head ever since.  What an important lesson for me to keep in mind every day.  Every day seems to be full of "little" things that annoy me, frustrate me, or "put me in a mood" and I need to remember that, with God, there is no such thing as a little thing.

Lessons from 9/11: 

The ‘Little’ Things

Author Unknown

• As you might know, the head of a major company survived the tragedy of “9/11” in New York because his son started kindergarten.
• Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts.
• One woman was late because her alarm clock didn’t go off in time.
• One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike because of an auto accident.
• One of them missed his bus.
• One spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to change.
• One’s car wouldn’t start.
• One went back to answer the telephone.
• One had a child that dawdled and didn’t get ready as soon as he should have.
• One couldn’t get a taxi.
• The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various means to get to work but before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. That is why he is alive today.

Now when I am stuck in traffic…

miss an elevator…

turn back to answer a ringing telephone…

all the little things that annoy me…

I think to myself…

this is exactly where God wants me to be at this very moment.

The next time your morning seems to be going wrong,

the children are slow getting dressed,

you can’t seem to find the car keys,

you hit every traffic light…

don’t get mad or frustrated;

God is at work watching over you.

May God continue to bless you with all those annoying little things –

and may you remember and appreciate their possible purpose.

(Author Unknown)

And this verse has stood out to me since I taught it at Kids' Church a few weeks back and as it floated in my head tonight as I re-posted this above thought.  May it encourage you as well.

Matthew 6:25-34

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.