Small Things

My youngest daughter likes for me to "tuck her in" to bed at night. This consists of me pulling the blankets up over her and giving her a kiss on the forehead or cheek. It takes mere seconds. But it is one of her FAVORITE parts of the day! She asks me every night before she goes to bed, and if she has a bad dream she wants me to tuck her in again. So I started thinking, it is such a small gesture, but it SHOUTS "I love you." for her. And as I followed that train of thought, I realized that it really is the "small things"-- the hugs, the notes in a lunchbox or suitcase, the kisses, the snuggle moments, the "one more" stories-- that add up to make us FEEL loved. Not that "big" things are unimportant, but they are big for a reason and just can't plausibly happen all the time. So do the "small things" today for the ones you love! And be motivated by the fact that God did the BIGGEST thing in sending Christ!

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:28-32

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:10-11