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 not make mistakes. And He