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Little Spheres
A Reminder I Needed to Hear
I was feeling a little low yesterday. Not having achieved this or that, wishing for more, wanting …wondering why I was feeling the way I was. I decided to pray, to share how I was feeling with the Spirit of Love, because if you can’t talk to the One who loves you when you’re feeling blue, it’s not much of a relationship, now is it?
I went on for a while, moaning about this, whining about that. Then, in an attempt to right myself, I started listing the things in my life I’m thankful for, the blessings I appreciate and enjoy each day, and it was THEN that this thought occurred to me. A quote from one of my favourite books, by one of my favourite authors (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
“I never knew that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.”
It was then I realized the error of my thinking. No, I may not sell as many books as J.K. Rowling or Brandon Sanderson. I may not touch as many lives as Oprah, Graham Norton, or Denzel Washington. But those who have read my books have told me how they touched them. My neighbors speak kindly of me and call me the “Kind Woman”. I feed the birds and squirrels, and I care for stray kitties when no one else will. I make a small, gentle impact…
