成人快手

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

It鈥檚 often said that being average means you鈥檙e as close to the bottom as you are to the top. That鈥檚 fine if you鈥檙e happy to drift through life accepting whatever comes your way. It鈥檚 a valid philosophy of life for some.聽 Most days I鈥檓 your typical average guy. Then I begin to think about where I鈥檓 going. It鈥檚 dangerous when I think. I hate drifting because drifting usually means going nowhere.

One way to snap out of drifting aimlessly is to pay attention to little things. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin, the great anti-slavery novel, writes-: 鈥淭o be really great in little things, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonisation.鈥�

On a plane recently I was fascinated by a young mother and baby sitting across the aisle from me. Baby was a having a great time flinging her dummy onto the floor and then gurgling loudly with delight. Mother lifted it, cleaned it and put it back in baby鈥檚 mouth. Out it came again. This time I lifted it. Next time the flight attendant whipped it up as she sped by. The joke was beginning to wear thin by now. The attendant came back down the aisle. She picked up the dummy once more but this time she attached it to a ribbon which mother duly tied to the seat in front. Problem solved. That鈥檚 seeing the importance of little things and little ones. I felt like clapping.

Almost anyone can focus on the big issues but excellence happens when the little things are done with care. Excellence is often a matter of recognising there are no little things.聽 On these darkening October days I believe you could brighten your own and other鈥檚 days by going the extra yard. Why not do a little more than you鈥檙e paid to do. Give more that you have to. Aim a little higher than you usually do. Most of all try a little harder than you want to.

Even Mother Teresa had to admit we can鈥檛 all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.