It's easy to look at the big things in life, but sometimes we just need to look at the small things, which seem minor at first but are often more important. In my life I see this in many ways. One area is devotions. I find myself pushing them aside because "i don't have enought time" or I'll skip a day here and skip a day there, it's not like I'm neglecting them altogether. Well recently I found out that I learn more about God when I read one smaller passage every day vs. a big passage every few days. Like this morning, for instance, I only read two bible verses..but they helped me tremendously.
Another area is relationships. I need to make a conscious effort to strenghten my relationships esp. with my parents and siblings becuase pretty soon I will be leaving home.
I need to be concerned with the little things becuase God was concerned with the little things. He showed us this when he sent his son to earth to save man-small and insignificant.

My Greatest Fear
Many people are scared of heights or the dark, but I'm scared of sand dollars. It may sound strange but it started this summer on vacation. We spent the first week of vacation on the coast of Colombia. Since I was sick the first day, my two sisters went to the beach without me. The next day when I went swimming with them they didn't mention to me that there were billions of sand dollars! I get easily freaked out by small slimy things that bite and you can't see, but they CAN see you and attack you!!!! So anyway, I convinced my younger sister to give me a piggy back ride past the sand dollars. After about an hour of playing in the waves and soaking up the sun my sisters deserted me and went to shore. I was like, "don't leave me here to be eaten by the sharks and sand dollars!" Since they just stood there..grinning, I decided to book it for the shore. Well, I was glad to see that I made in one piece. I was also mad with my sisters becuase they had exaggerated in the amount of sand dollars. Instead of there being billions of sand dollars, I only felt a couple! Needless to say, I learned my lesson- don't trust evil people and don't give in to fear!