Daily Reflections - October 30,2012

MIGHT IN MITE

 

I love to cook. I have discovered something that my readers would probably agree with. Not all big and bulbous garlic, tomatoes and onions are necessarily the best. When it comes to flavor, smaller is better. Local garlic from the Ilocos region are almost always more flavor-packed than the imported ones that come in neat packages. Locally-grown wansoy, kinchay and black pepper pack a wallop of pure spicy delight compared to those that come in hermetically sealed plastic wrappers.

Great things began small. Big movements started with just a single person with a vision, a mission and a solid decision to get it going. Remember that tiny shoe store that sold nothing but shoes and bags, and has now become a big conglomerate? Or that apartment-sized university that set off in the crowded world of tertiary education that now opens its doors to tens of thousands of students all over the country?

Greatness was never meant to be equated with size and might. The Church began with but a handful of very ordinary men: fishermen, net menders — individuals who would not be expected to make waves in backwater Galilee. But greatness did not depend on might but perhaps on something akin to the lowly mite. It was premised not on earthly position, but on a divine decision to send His own Son in our midst, to become man like us — from lowly and insignificant Nazareth, from the ranks, not of the ruling class, but of the working class, who eked out a living with their rough and callous hands.

I, too, am an example of this. From the boonies of Cavite to where I am right now. Not much of an achievement on my part, but a gift, a call, and a mission from Him who started the movement called the Church, that He compares to nothing more than a mustard seed or the invisible yeast. Courage, little flock! You are never too small or too insignificant. God counts on you. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB

 

REFLECTION QUESTION: Do you believe God can bring your small beginning to greatness?

 

Jesus, I am but a grain of sand in the vast ocean of humanity. Grant me the grace to celebrate my smallness that becomes greatness in You.