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"Mediocre at Best
By Barbara A Miller"

This past Sunday, we had our Chili Cook-off/Bake Sale. I had planned on bringing a couple of Key Lime pies. It was a busy week planning the Cook-Off and our family's monthly meal at Valarie's. Both events happened on the same day.

All week, I was making shopping lists for each activity. As the items were bought, I crossed them off the list, Finally, on Saturday, I had everything I needed for both events. At least I thought I had all the ingredients.

When I started putting out the ingredients for the Key Lime pie, I realized I had forgotten to put one key ingredient on my list. In fact, that ingredient didn't make it on any of the several lists I formulated earlier in the week.

Yoghurt, I had missed the yoghurt. I could have made the Key Lime pie without it, but it is the yoghurt that brings the taste to the peak of perfection. Without it, the pie would have been mediocre at best.

I don't know why, but I always seem to wake up around three in the morning, and God puts thoughts in my head that keep me awake.

'Mediocre at best,' I thought. 'How many times in my life, in my walk of Faith, have I forgotten or ignored an important ingredient which ended up with a mediocre response to what God wants me to do.'

Yes, I had a busy week, but to have missed that all-important ingredient each of the many times I made a list is incomprehensible. God, in those early hours of the morning, was giving me a wake-up call.

In a moment of quiet, when I wasn't busy, and my attention was on Him, I came to the realization that I need to pay better attention to what God would have me do. One little ingredient may seem insignificant, but in the case of my Key Lime pie, it is essential for the taste of perfection.

I realized that often in life, what may seem insignificant can be and often is an essential ingredient to doing what God wants us to do.

If I can find God in the small things, imagine what I can do when I graduate to the big things God would have me do. What small thing is God asking you to do for Him?

Barbara: United States

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