{"id":23034,"date":"2022-10-14T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/?p=23034"},"modified":"2022-10-14T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:20:40","slug":"its-the-little-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holytrinityweb.com\/weekly\/its-the-little-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Little Things."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Growing up idolizing Rocky Colavito of the Cleveland Indians and inspired by the greatest rock and roll ever written (Beatles forever!), like any young person, I hoped to make my mark on the world in a memorable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would be a journalist, a writer, a teacher, a lawyer (if not a judge!), and later in life maybe I\u2019d go into politics and make laws and stuff. Something big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well as you know, that\u2019s all changed. I\u2019m a priest who says your morning mass, hears your confession, and visits you in the hospital. Simple, but there\u2019s a life there. (I smile at the headlines on People Magazine as I wait to check out at the grocery . . . \u201cBe Your Passion\u201d, \u201cDon\u2019t Let Anyone Stand in the Way\u201d, \u201cYou Can be Anything You Dream\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well dreams are good. They can light a fire in us. But most often we have to settle for less than we hoped for. Life comes in and best laid plans get put on hold – – – elderly parents need special care, money just isn\u2019t there to support the dream, or . . . we find we just don\u2019t have what it takes to do it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So what do we do? It\u2019s a critical moment really. Some people can be embittered at life not turning out how they had imagined. Some people think that Plan B (or C or D!) for their life is second or third best. Sadness or disillusion can follow. We\u2019ve all experienced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s some help here from the Gospel. Jesus tells the story of The Ten Gold Coins. (Lk 19: 11\u0016-19<\/a>. Read it!) In it three servants are charged with different amounts of money to watch over during the master\u2019s absence. When he returns, he calls them one by one to see what they\u2019ve done with the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of them had increased their master\u2019s holdings and were equally praised for what they\u2019d done. The third did nothing. He buried the little money he\u2019d been given and handed it back to the master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point is, God doesn\u2019t care how big the return on his investment is. What He wants is that we try. \u201cThe person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones.\u201d Lk 16:10<\/a>. God will increase our own faithfulness in the \u201csmall things\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let me give you an example. I stopped into a store to get a piece of foam rubber (I\u2019m making rubber duckies for Fr. John\u2019s Christmas present). <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young salesperson was there to help me find just the right piece. He crawled over shelf after shelf to find what we were looking for. Finally we got it – – but it needed cutting. \u201cI can do that. No problem.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutting the foam rubber required a band saw which he carefully lined up. As the cut was almost through, the band jumped forward and nicked his hand drawing a little blood. I was mortified. \u201cI\u2019m sooo sorry\u201d, I said. Washing his hand and putting a band\u0016aid on his hand he said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry it\u2019s just a little nick.\u201d He smiled as he wrote up the order and handed me my foam rubber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simple, eh? No big woop. But something was visible in that young man that touched me. It was his simple kindness and desire to help. He wanted no praise and my going on about his great service only embarrassed him. I wrote his manager to tell him what a prince he had in the Foam Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how it is with the \u201clittle things\u201d – – – they mean a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s do the little things just right. God will help us when the big things come around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bless you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fr. Tim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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