There are probably three big areas that challenge us the most, test us the most, where the greatest stress lives:
Work. Family. Health.
Those are the big ones.
Speaking for myself—sole provider, five kids under 10, always something going on health-wise, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller—I get it. These areas carry real weight.
We want to be faithful in the big decisions. The career moves. The parenting choices. The health challenges.
But what we can actually control, where we should probably put our effort, is in the little things.
How we say grace before dinner.
How we help each other with small tasks.
How we respond when somebody asks something of us.
How we react with empathy instead of irritation.
How we simply listen instead of fixing.
These might not feel as big as “How am I going to put food on the table?” or “How are we going to get through this health scare?”
But these little things are the things we can do faithfully.
You can’t control whether you get the promotion. But you can control whether you’re kind to your coworker today.
You can’t control whether your kid gets sick. But you can control whether you’re patient when they spill their milk for the third time.
You can’t control all the big outcomes. But you can be faithful in the small moments that lead up to them.
That’s where holiness lives. In the daily details.
Let us pray.
Lord, help us be faithful in the little things. Make us more faithful in what we can control and more trusting in what we can’t. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
