LITTLE THINGS

Hey there!

How are you doing this fine day? I hope you're good and that if you aren't, God heals whatever ails you.

Welcome to today's gist. 

Something happened to me last year and I was recently thinking of it and I thought to share. Sometime last year, I woke up one day and realized that my left hand was aching. It felt like my hand was being pulled from the socket. The most annoying part was that I couldn't say what exactly was the reason my hand was causing me so much pain. 

Then a few days later, I was about to sleep and I noticed that I was putting my left hand beneath my head to sleep. That was a habit I had formed recently and because of the way I was sleeping, I was putting unnecessary pressure on my left hand and it was causing me so much pain!

Something as trivial as where I put my hand while I slept had been doing so much damage to me. As I thought about that, I realized  that that was something that applied to more than just sleeping. 

There are things we regard as inconsequential and really unimportant; spending extra five minutes in social media, engaging in conversations that seem to border on inappropriate but are not quite inappropriate and it seems like it wouldn't have adverse effect on our lives, so we continue to do them, under the delusion that it won't matter ultimately. 

Then you wake up one day and realize that it really does matter and that while you were slowly inching towards making a habit of those inconsequential things, you were destroying, or at least scattering, some important part of your life, much like I was doing to my left hand by that seemingly inconsequential habit of sleeping on it. 

These "small" things are typically the most dangerous and the ones we should be most watchful of, but we seem to spend most of our time focusing on the big things that we forget to pay attention to the small ones. 

As we draw the curtains open on September, I want to encourage you to look at those little things you do, find out how they affect other parts of your life and see if you need to make changes, and when you do see the need, please make the change. Do not sacrifice the important things on the altar of the trivial. 

Let me be the first to wish you a fruitful September, I pray that God helps us to mind our actions, both in the little and the big things. 

See you next week!

Love,

Achenyo.