Good Work in Small Measures

Ever feel small because you don't think you're big?

We tend to look at our roles in life with a diminished view. Our impact is always less than someone else’s. If we write, our audience is smaller than our fellow blogger, or Frank Viola, or Ann Voskamp, or Philip Yancey.

If we minister to a half dozen young people, it’s easy to compare ourselves to the person with a dozen, or a church full of eager faces, or a national ministry.

Here’s a message. Stop comparing yourself to others!

Eyvonne Sharp wrote a great piece about her reflections from the Jumping Tandem Writer’s Retreat, hosted by THC Managing Editor Deidra Riggs.
Eyvonne met all kinds of interesting people and her one-line introduction often ended with a question, “What’s your story?” And she hear all kinds of inspiring tales.

She was continually told stories of people doing small things – lots of small things – that all result in giving glory to a big God.

“I was in awe. It was like a portal had been opened,” she said. “Ordinary women transformed into mighty warriors before me. My eyes welled with tears and I had to fight them back because I couldn’t explain how their simple explanations opened my eyes to an essence I had never seen before.”

The best advice she has to do is to simply "love people” and let God bring the blessings.

“It was as if God shouted in my mind. 'If you want to see true greatness, this is it!.' I saw love and service and beauty put on skin and become more than theology and Bible study and theoretical truth. “

They were “either fighting a hard battle within or they were fighting for the souls of others,” she writes.

Read her whole post here.