Just little

It seems like our various situations are so big and overwhelming and just unmanageable.

Jackson sometimes likes to think of himself as big. He likes to think that he's bigger than we are. That's a normal thing for a four year old to think. But several times in the last few days he has told us, "Mom, Dad, we're all little. Even I'm little. Everything is little." I don't think he's trying to be "deep." But, man, the wisdom in that statement is just overwhelming to me. Right now, when our fears and worries seem so big, he is reminding us that they're really not. This is not to say that our lives or our problems are insignificant. But when we view those things in the greatness of God, we are certainly little.


"If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel,then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all."
- C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity