About halfway through a rehearsal conducted by Sir Michael Costa, with trumpets blaring, drums rolling, and violins singing their rich melody, the piccolo player muttered to himself, “What good am I doing? I might just as well not be playing. Nobody can hear me anyway.” So he kept his instrument to his mouth, but he made no sound. Within moments, the conductor cried, “Stop! Stop! Where’s the piccolo?”
At certain times in life we all feel insignificant and useless. Surrounded by people with greater talent than ours, we are tempted in our weak moments just to settle back and “let George do it,” We forget that Jesus used five loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude.
Whether our talent is great or small, the performance isn’t complete until we do our best with what we have.”
Have you ever felt like that piccolo player? I know that I have. There are so many people who can do things so much better and know so much more than I do. But there are many things which I can do. At the present time there is so much focus on the things that we can and must not do.
Let’s focus on the things that we can do, whether big or small. In God’s eyes it is a great thing to do a little thing well.
God bless, Anna.