There was a monk in the 17th century named Brother Lawrence. From the little I know of him, he was an amazing man who came to an awesome realization about serving the Lord.
"It is enough for me to but pick up a straw from the ground for the love of God."
He grasped a concept that many of us don't.
We don't have to do huge things in order to serve God.
So many times we (...I) feel like if we aren't somewhere in Africa, living in a hut, slaving away in the heat everyday, that we aren't really serving God. We can't possibly do anything that He would approve over. Thankfully, this is so incorrect. It doesn't take turning the world upside-down 24/7 in hyper mode to serve the Lord. We can do it each and everyday. Correction: we SHOULD. In all the small things. In washing the dishes. In driving to work. In scubbing floors or painting walls for a neighbor. In giving someone a hug.
Our God is a personal God, and He loves hearing you whistle as you work just as much as He loves hearing you sing in church on Sunday.
Serve and worship Him in the small things. Because there are WAY more small things in life than there are big. Work it.
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