All the Little Things
Our thoughts might sound something like this...
There is too much to do. I can't do it all. I'll never never get it right. I mess everything up. They will never come. No one would be interested anyway. I work and nothing ever happens. I feel like my whole life is falling apart and it's all my fault. No one cares. No one understands. All my problems are my fault and don't matter to anyone else.
Hopefully, we never hear all of those things at once, but that's what we tell ourselves. Our problems are so big to us - overwhelming in fact. But when we think of talking to anyone else, we think no one else cares or would be willing to help.
That's a lie.
Yes, your problems are big. Yes, they are overwhelming, but there is One who always cares about all the little details.
Holly Gerth put it this way, "God cares about all the details of your life. Nothing is to small to bring to him."
I remember I was at church for a prayer service at the River church in Kalamazoo a few years ago. It wasn't your typical prayer service, where we have candles lit and we sing songs with an organ. It was a group of people who sat in church and prayed. Sometimes we would go up to a microphone and pray for someone/something publicly. Sometimes our pastor, Rob Link, would talk about how to pray.
There was one woman I remember specifically. I don't know her name. I had never seen her before and I have never seen her again, but she has stuck in my mind for over 5 years now. She had walked up to the microphone and began to share an answered prayer. She was a single mother of at least 3 kids and she had been struggling financially. The week before, she had really needed a haircut, but with their average cost being over $30 easily, she just couldn't afford it. So instead she went to this women's conference and apparently they did a drawing for some prizes which were donated by women who just wanted to bless someone's day.
She won...She won a haircut.
When she shared that answered prayer, she said something like this, "Getting a haircut is a small thing. It isn't that important, but it was something that mattered to me. When I won that haircut, I knew that God really did care about all the things that seem like they should be insignificant. He cares and he does answer prayers. Even prayers that don't seem like they should matter to someone as big and powerful as He is."
Remember: Nothing is too small to bring to Him.