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Bigger Fish to Fry

Bigger Fish to Fry

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Bigger Fish to Fry-red plate filled with fried fish and lemon slicesDo you prefer small fish piping hot from the grill or oven? Or do you enjoy bigger fish to fry?

For non-food decisions, go for bigger fish to fry.

Bigger fish to fry means more important matters to manage.

You deal with:

  • Major activities rather than minor
  • Emergencies rather than routine
  • Long lasting rather than brief

Bigger fish to fry does not mean never having fun.

Meaningful moments include:

  • Relaxing
  • Resting
  • Focusing on relationships

Personal accomplishments do not equal success.

  • Quality time with family is more important than awards.
  • Helping people in need matters more than promotions.
  • Investing in lives outlasts investing in stocks.

How you spend your time and money reveals what you value most.

  • Will it make a difference?
  • Does it have eternal worth?

Be sure bigger fish to fry are worth the effort.

Focusing only on self often leads to fishy situations. Focusing on God’s will and helping others keeps you on the right track. Jesus said to follow Him and become fishers of people. All people. Everywhere.

“Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people” (Luke 5:10 NIV).

Thanks to Lindy Pierce for the suggestion and to Terry Pennington, owner of Creekside Restaurant, for the photo.

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Nothing to Write Home About

Nothing to Write Home About

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Nothing to write home about-Grand Canyon photoJoseph C. Ives explored the Grand Canyon and Colorado River region in 1857 and 1858. He thought it was nothing to write home about. Although he admired the scenery, he described it as “altogether valueless.” He could not imagine anyone wanting to visit there.

I wonder what he would think if he could see the Grand Canyon’s millions of visitors today.

Nothing to write home about means something is nothing special.

It is:

  • Boring
  • Not very good
  • Unimportant

The expression can describe almost anything, including:

  • Food
  • Income
  • Places
  • Activities
  • Books
  • Movies

We don’t always agree on what is nothing to write home about.

 For example, do you enjoy:

  • Seafood?
  • A job with regular hours?
  • The Grand Canyon?
  • Tennis?
  • John Grisham books?
  • Hallmark Christmas movies?

Some of us like these. Others of us think they are for the birds.

Caring for one another is always something to write home about.

Jesus set the example of love in action. We do well to follow, through thick and thin.

“Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other” (1 Thessalonians 4:9 NIV).

Thanks to Jim Graybeal for the suggestion.

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Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill

Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill

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Make a Mountain out of a molehill--mountain reflected in waterWe often let the smallest problem bother us most.

We make a mountain out of a molehill. We make:

  • Something easy seem hard
  • A small problem seem big
  • Something unimportant seem important

Moles are small animals. So are the hills they make. Yet, we don’t like them.

  • They make a mess in yards and fields.
  • We may fall if we step on them.

However, if we watch our step, we can walk around or over molehills. We must climb for days to the top of some mountains.

Molehills destroy a yard’s beauty. A mountain’s volcano can destroy everything for miles.

We often forget how small our problems are.

Think about:

  • Colds compared to cancer
  • Flat tires compared to car wrecks
  • A bad meal compared to no food
  • A rained-out ballgame compared to an island destroyed by a storm

We may not feel on top of the world all the time. However, most days can be hunky dory.

Make a Mountain out of a MolehillLet’s not allow small problems to ruin our lives.

Rather than make a mountain out of a molehill, remember what matters most. Also remember, whether our problems are big or small, we never have to walk alone.

“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us—they help us learn to be patient” (Romans 5:3 TLB).

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