Small Things…

“You cannot do great things.  You can only do small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa

Our house is littered with scraps of paper, bumper stickers, and posters.
On our bulletin boards.
On our refrigerator. 
On the walls of the stairway from our back door up to our kitchen.
Each on a reminder of values and dreams and hopes of what is truly important.
This quote is one of those scraps of paper.  

I found myself thinking about it today because this evening I will be meeting with the group of high school students and adults with whom I will be going to Nicaragua in a couple of weeks.  While there we will work with masons and community members to build homes for several families who need them.  For the families who will move into the homes which we build, it is a godsend.  But, in the larger scheme of things…millions and millions of families across the globe who also need a home…it is a drop in the bucket.  But, what else can I do?

All I can do is to keep doing my small things with all of the love and all of the hope and all of the faith and all of the compassion that I can muster.  And, then, to link them the best that I can with the small things that you do and you do and you do. And so on and so on and so on…
Until that day.
Until that day.