Small stuff and smaller stuff... Its all about where we stand.

I was in the lift just now going for a meeting and two tea ladies walked in with me and they were complaining. They were complaining about how "difficult" life was because how some office admin folks were making them clear old newspapers etc. which incidentally is their job to do so.

Today the STI made another decline downwards. As of lunch time when I'm writing this post, its 156points down. Along with the whole aspect of Hedge Funds collapsing, panic in the market and the likelihood of the whole economy slowing down despite what the governments of the world is saying, I was thinking: "That's really sweating the small stuff."

But you know, I remember the wallpaper that I've put on my computer back home. Its this picture:

Those of us who haven't seen this might be thinking... "What?!? He's a photographer man... bad as he is, this ain't a photo. If it is, its an artifact filled photo." Well, this picture is a picture of the world as we know it, except that its given us a perspective that most of us are myopic towards. Yes, planet earth is there. If you still can't see it, let me point us out to you:

Yup, that's us. ALL of us. On a planet that our entire lives, generations, economies revolve in. That includes the tiny little S$440bn Singapore Index which I was concerned about.

God spoke to Job near the end of his very difficult circumstance: "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion? Do you know the ordinances of the heaven? Can you set their dominion over the earth? Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundanc eof water may cover you? Can you send out lightnings that they may go?" Job 38: 31, 33, 34-35.

Obviously he couldn't.

God basically said: "Don't worry. It doesn't help." Matt 6:25-34.

So our worries are unfounded but our concerns must remain focused. Concern for people and concern for their eternity. Let's not sweat the small stuff and focus on what's to last forever. He's got you covered as long as we don't walk away from His covering.

What are you worried about today? What you concerned about tomorrow? Make sure its eternal, not temporary.

Grace and peace,

kel

PS: Some info on the "pale blue dot" picture above. This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters -- violet, blue and green -- and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification.