Sound of Surviving Blog

Yesterday was my 29^th birthday. I sat and thought a lot about how I’ve grown over these years, the things I’ve accomplished, the little moments in between spent with family and friends, and so on. I realized that without even recognizing it, these moments, big and small, are what God uses to shape our lives, to mold us into the person he desires for us to become.  

These moments are like the training ground for the rest of our lives. As minuscule as they may be, I’ve recently found myself thinking about how the little moments spent attending church with my family, making home videos with my brothers, and baking Christmas cookies with my grandmother, and playing outside with my neighbors and friends, have all helped, in some way, to train me for the ultimate goal, to be the person that God has created me to be. I’ve found that these little moments are just as important, if not even more so, than the bigger ones, my brain surgery, graduations, getting my first job, and so on.

I’ve found that we often miss out on so many of these so-called “little moments” while we’re waiting around, too focused on the big ones that we deem as more important, like marriage, or getting that job, or graduating from college. But it’s often the little moments that, looking back, I’ve noticed are what help me get through the big ones. I don’t know how I would’ve gotten through my journey if not for all those “mini moments” spent with family and friends, building up walls of love around me, or without the lessons I learned about God and his love, just from watching or listening to my mom and dad or my grandmom and grandpop. If major league sports players just sat on the sidelines, missing practices, insisting they were just going to wait for the big game to play, they’d never get any of that training that makes them the stars they were meant to be. I think the same thing goes for us. If we focus in too much on those big moments, we miss all of the little ones, that form us into who God created us to be.