A Small Life

My life must count.  I think we are put here to do some good stuff, perhaps even some extraordinary stuff.  And if that is so, then I don’t want to live a small life.

I intend to live out loud and in living color. 

And I only see a part of all that this philosophy means at the moment.

Mother Theresa is speaking to me in these days. 

So, you begin. I begin.  I picked up one person – maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person I wouldn’t have picked up the others. 

The whole work is only a drop in the ocean.  But if we don’t put the drop in, the ocean would be one drop less.

Same thing for you.  Same thing for your family.  Same thing in the church where you go.  Just begin … one, one, one.

~Works of Love are Works of Peace

My “work”, my calling takes on a different face from Mother Theresa, yet it is “my” calling.  I am a self-professed writer of hope, encouragement and inspiration.  And I think my life is bigger than that. 

First I desired to write.  About what, I had no clue (this was thirty years ago).  That is when I began in earnest to collect books and ideas, thoughts and quotes.  And then later came the blogs and books. 

As Mother Theresa said, “just begin … one, one, one.”

I think that is the secret.  We have our itsy-bitsy lives and our itsy-bitsy agendas and sometimes we may flounder as to where to go and what to do in living them out. 

And fear kicks in and stifles the spark of largeness about which our lives could become.  And we end up drowning in our small, unlived, unfulfilled lives.

And all we needed to do was one small act.  In that act, perhaps we would find the seeds for the next act.

All I know now is this … however small or large my life may be, I intend to live as large as I can.

Mary Oliver says it this way … “I Don’t Want to Live a Small Life.”

  

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