what is this thing?

I have been apprehensive about starting a blog for the past couple of weeks because I guess I figured that the first post would need to be something profoundly interesting or maybe something I would deem "worthy" of reading. But, alas, I got nothing. This blog is going to be a compilation of many different things that I find interesting, funny, inspiring, or maybe not so much of any of those. 

I guess I could start out telling you why I decided to call this blog "just trying to do the little things." Recently, as in all my life, I have felt the need to change the world in some big way. I think that is a pretty natural thing for all of us on some levels. But, of course, despite most of my best efforts and ideas I still seem to come up short in different ways. Tasks and ideas and dreams of things all become too big and lofty and I somehow crack under the pressure because after all I am human. SO, recently, as in the past couple of days, I have been thinking more of where I can place these ideas and dreams that I have so that they won't be crushed under the weight of my perfectionist tendencies and all of a sudden as if it came straight out of no where I thought, what if I just didn't go so big? What if I just dreamed a little but smaller but still with the same amount of passion? As I chewed this idea over for a few days I was reading another really great blog by a woman named Michele Perry. Its called from the unpaved road. You should definitely check it out, some of the things she writes well, mostly bring me to tears but also completely blow the perspective I have of God right out of the water. Anyways, in it she wrote this thing that seemed to capture all that I was thinking and feeling into one perfect line. 

"Perhaps it is the little things done with great love

 that matter most in the light of eternity."  

So, that is what this blog means. This is the journey of me trying to do the little things with great love. Still there will probably be times when I will fall short and I am sure that it will never be something that I will completely conquer. I think that this is the kind of thing that is meant to be practiced and strived for and failed at time and time again and I am okay with that.