It's the small things that count. Big things can get forgotten or explained away, but if someone does small, loving things for you every day you know they love you. Like how my 8.5 month pregnant wife insists on taking a turn with a kid who won't sleep, or how she works and works and works at home even when it would be incredibly easy to just play with the kids and slack off just a little.
Like God. The big things that He does for us do come, but sometimes we can forget or explain them away with doubt and fear. It's the little things, though, that truly prove His love for us.
Because these loving-kindnesses are small, though, they aren't obvious. We have to look for and concentrate on them for us to truly understand how extensive they are. Like newly seeing the beauty of a familiar landscape, looking for the Lord's loving kindnesses can make us see the world with new eyes. We can look at a calm morning, a job well done, or a pleasant experience and see so much of the Lord's handiwork undergirding it that the only course of action I can see is to thank the Lord for all the small things, for the myriad ways He loves and blesses us.
Thank you-I needed this today.
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