Smallness is a big deal. And so is Michael Pollan.

So the theme of my year is smallness. These huge problems: global warming, violence and war, greed and consumerism can be overwhelming and what I’m finding is that there is something good and rich and buried in small places that offers hope and, to use the buzz word of our year, even change. 

 

This year I’ve thought a tremendous amount and written a tremendous amount about Christian practice.  And Christian practices are, by and large, small. We are called to earthy (not earthly) things like bread and wine, prayer, stewardship, service, and faithfulness in the ordinary stuff of mundane life.  It often feels like the things of this world- absolute relativism, violence, and endless consumption are Goliath, and we’ve been given such small stones.  The word. The sacraments. The Community.  Hospitality. Stewardship. Sabbath. Forgiveness. *

 

But we have to trust that what we’ve been given and called to is sufficient.

 

This is an article about smallness. ** I’m a huge Michael Pollan fan, and while he is not a Christian as far as I know, this article fits into to this year’s “small is the new big” theme.  It is a great article, easily digestible and tasty. You should totally read it.

 

*Granted, the resurrection is big, not small, and it infuses this smallness with eternal weight. This is most true– however, subjectively, as teeny little humans, our experience of mundane life is often one of smallness.

** Thanks to the urban farmer for sending me this article.

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