Small Things To Help Endure The Hard Times

The world is a chaotic place today full of bad news and struggle. There are some small things to help endure the hard times however. In my past I spent time doing missionary work, not the digging wells in Africa kind, the proselyting kind. I no longer go to a particular church, but some of the lessons from those very busy days have stuck with me. One in particular came from a speech that was given to a group of us at a conference. The speech talked about finding small things in daily life to look forward to. At the time we would wake up at 6:30, study, pray, plan, and then go out to teach people from 9:00AM to 8:30PM every single day. It was a pretty busy and hectic schedule, so that advice really came in handy. I have kept that advice ever since. Find small things in every day life to look forward to, and the day won't seem as hard. When I lived in China it became my walk home from work every evening. Chinese cities are full of neon lights and people. I would walk home through that cyber punk blade runner like world watching the people go about their lives. Today the small thing has become photography. It could be anything really, but finding that thing can help in these troubled times.