There are No Small Offerings
It was from a senior who wanted to let me know that she appreciates having all the information I provide in it because "not everyone is comfortable with smart phones."
It's going in my collection of notes, cards, and letters that I keep forever. Not only because it was so sweet and honest, but because it reminds me of something I remind myself of often.
There are no small parts. Just small actors.
There are no insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential offerings in the Church.
What a bishop does is not more important than the person who puts their name on a clipboard in Relief Society to bring meals to someone who is sick.
It's not. Period.
The person who makes the flower arrangements for the podium.
The person who shows up for cleaning the building.
The person who brings their extra garden zucchini and puts them on the foyer table to share.
They're all important in building the kingdom of God.
Why?
Because they all can answer someone's prayer. They can all be just the thing somebody needed. They all can be a blessing to someone.
If you're phoning it in, but don't want to give up whatever you're doing because you might be asked to do something that "isn't as important"... Nothing you do is unimportant. Not in comparison to anything else. And especially not in comparison to the thing you could be doing instead of phoning it in.
Do the simple thing with earnestness without telling yourself that a simple thing can't be important.
It can be important to someone, even if the only person it matters to is you.
