The Day of Small Things

There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves,

 and two small fishes:

but what are they among so many?

~JOHN 6:9

"Letters joined make words,

And words to books may grow

As flake on flake, descending,

Forms an avalanche of snow.

A single utterance may good

Or evil thoughts inspire;

One little spark, enkindled,

May set a town on fire.

What volumes may be written

With little drops of ink!

How small a leak, unnoticed,

A mighty ship will sink!

A tiny insect's labour

Makes the coral strand,

And mighty seas are girdled

With grains of golden sand,

A daily penny, saved,

A fortune may begin;

A daily penny squandered,

May lead to vice and sin.

Our life is made entirely

Of moments multiplied,

As little streamlets, joining,

Form the ocean's tide.

Our hours and, aye, our months and years,

Are in small moments given;

They constitute our time below,

Eternity in heaven."

~ The Christian's Daily Challenge

For who hath despised the day of small things?
~ZECHARIAH 4:10