Thursday, January 24, 2019

MATT Good morning! I’m Matt Farmer, Associate Pastor at Central United Methodist Church in Meridian. There was little boy with a small shovel who was trying to clear a pathway through deep, new-fallen snow in front of his house. A man paused as he was passing by to observe the child’s enormous task. “Little boy,” he inquired, “How can someone as small as you expect to finish a task as big as this?” The boy looked up and replied confidently, “Little by little, that’s how!” And he continued shoveling. There’s a large lesson to be heard in this little story. How often do we with our “adult” selves taunt the weak “child” within us saying “How can someone as inadequate as you expect to surmount so great a mountain as this?” We would do well to remember the little boy’s answer to the older man: “Little by little, that’s how!” By depending on God and persevering we can face any mountain, one small victory after another.