When I began this quest to complete a one hundred day creative challenge I wasn’t sure I’d get to this point. In the beginning it was an idea sparked by Hillsong’s Cass Langton and I decided to run with it. When you start something it’s like a mustard seed. You sow something small and it grows over time until you look up and there’s a giant tree or 100 blog posts sitting there.
So often in life we think that our small is not enough. That our awkward beginnings are inadequate. That our efforts are pointless. We compare our small with the end products of other’s months and years of work.
Small beginnings are not to be despised. Small beginnings sow the seeds. It’s in the small beginnings and the stumbles forward that things grow. It’s in the ordinary that the extraordinary is born.
Today is International Women’s Day and there are women all over the world who want to sow seeds. Seeds that will see them fulfil their life’s purpose. From the mother in Africa who encourages her girl to go to school because one day she will use her education to bring good to her community. To the twenty-something business woman who has a dream of running a social enterprise that will bring not only success in her own life, but will bring help and empowerment to many others in the community. To the one who stands up for refugee children held in detention by sitting in a politician’s office and says, ‘These are are all our children.’
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become. James Baldwin
You see, sometimes the small seems insignificant. The small seems paltry in the face of the insurmountable. But, it’s in the small where big things begin.
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
