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Praying about the "small" stuff
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
A while back, I was washing the windows on my house and got to two very small ones in a door. I had never washed them before because they looked frosted. My thoughts in the past had gone something like this: “Why should I wash a window that I can’t see out of anyway?” But this time, I decided to give these tiny little windows a good scrubbing.
I was so surprised to find that they were not actually made of frosted glass at all; they’d just been dirty! I also discovered that on the outside of them, there was some paint from when the house was painted six years prior. Now, post-cleaning, the outside light that comes through them shines directly on a stairway and really helps in illuminating the way up the steps in the daytime.
This experience made me think about other things in my life that I had considered “small frosted windows” or, in other words, things that I had accepted as not clean and orderly but difficult or impossible to change. Several things came to mind such as a couple of relationships with folks who had been close friends in the past but with whom I hadn’t been in contact for some time because of rough patches in communications, a couple of small health problems, and a few things about my house that I thought I couldn’t afford to fix.
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