Because You Matter and We Can All Do the Thing That Matters Most
Standing at the sink, soap suds filling my hands I hear a voice behind me. “Mom, I feel like I don’t have a purpose. I mean, I can’t do anything well. I’m not really good at anything, I don’t have any talents or whatever. Why am I even here?” I know this question all too well, precious child. In a world that manufactures idols out of ordinary people every day, where people make idols out of themselves, where movies, t.v. and social media continually tempt us to self-aggrandize and self-publicize, and where all it takes is one glance at another person’s facebook page to make you feel that all of life is a competition to be won and you are clearly the biggest loser that there ever was, yes, my child it can be hard to feel like you matter. But I need to tell you something. You matter to God. You are important to God. Because God, the eternal Creator of all things, does not make trash. He does no...