Day 257 - big smaller things.

Day 257 and I continue to read the autobiography of Tony Blair.
Fascinating read.
Fascinating leader.
Among the things that have impressed me is the determination to make his time as Prime Minister focused on things of importance and not trivia.
It was while at university that a Ugandan friend, Olara Otunnu, impressed upon him that the world was not debating the trivial debates of the Labor Party. Instead, the world's population was focused on issues of life, hope, health versus death due to the ravages of poverty, conflict and disease.

Of course we are all experts at assuring ourselves that our trivia is not trivia but of world changing significance. We are experts are shrinking the world down to our context.
But in our sane, honest moments we know we are pretty small with regards to the whole.
But those sane, honest moments should not reduce us to viewing ourselves with disdain or disregard. Rather, they should propel us to involve our lives in the bigger, substantial questions of today.

I'm having this thought percolate around in my head for the past few weeks.
What would my life look like if I really took serious the bigger issues?
How could I involve myself in them?
How do I avoid spending a day, a week, a month, a life specialising in trivia that truly makes no or little difference in the global scope, the eternal scope of life.

Jesus obviously did this. Yet whilst literally saving the world, he still had an amazing propensity to do little things.
He had this uncanny capacity to touch the eyes of a blind guy, visit the home of a sick little girl, take his disciples fishing, go for a mountain walk .......and make all this connect to the biggest purpose possible.

Being about the bigger things is not sitting in rooms debating philosophical issues, or making grand speeches about them. Being about the bigger things is as much about making the little things bigger than they appear and making the bigger things more tangible than people think.

Jesus was brilliantly local, while global, while eternal.

Makes you rethink how you're doing most things.