Small Tasks

Does it sometimes seem like our whole lives are consumed with one small task after another? It can get overwhelming.  Recently, I came across this quote from Hellen Keller and it put my struggles in perspective rapidly.

Before she turned two, Hellen Keller lost her sight and her hearing. If you looked her up on Wikipidia today, here is what you would find. “Hellen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.” So, it seems to me that she accomplished many great and noble tasks.

I can also see how the beginning of her journey must have been focused on the smallest of tasks. Goals that may not be so different than those we have for our kids. She needed to learn her letters, the names of common items, a method of communication…sound familiar?

She accomplished great and noble things, but she did so through daily diligent focus on the small tasks. She built her abilities to understand her world and share her ideas with others. Our small tasks may be quite different. We may be bathing our little ones or giving them their medicine. We might be doing dishes or folding laundry. Maybe we’re driving them to therapy appointments and attending meetings at their school.

Each small task may seem menial and unimportant, but they need to be done. I hope we can all draw some inspiration from Hellen Keller and take on our small tasks as if they were great and noble…they may be leading us to bigger and better things.