Little Things
May 1, 2022
Interior of a Kitchen (detail), Martin Drolling, 1815
“OUR fidelity to little things, commonplace duties, is a truer index of love than the acceptation of greater difficulties. It requires great strength of character and solid virtue to do little things well. There is no human applause to be won, nothing to arouse enthusiasm, no consciousness that we are doing something praiseworthy. To be gentle and patient at home, to keep one’s temper month after month amid the friction and petty annoyances which we encounter in our daily life, needs more courage than it requires to perform some heroic act at which the world marvels. All have not the opportunity of doing great things, but all can be faithful in little things, and so merit to hear from the lips of our dear Lord the ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.'”
— Madame Cecilia, Cor Cordium
