Small Potatoes
When gardeners dig potatoes, they usually look for lots of large ones. Small potatoes often get thrown away.
Grocery shoppers and cooks also prefer large potatoes most of the time.
Anything small or unimportant may be described as small potatoes.
Most people consider them of little worth. In the business world, they might include:
- Small amounts of money
- Family-owned shops
- Jobs low on the totem pole
Unfortunately, people frequently receive the small potatoes label too.
- Children or youth
- Older adults
- Poor
- Unemployed
- Homeless
- Disabled
- Anyone different
Others often treat them like they are a dime a dozen.
Yet, small potatoes offer great benefits.
Freshly dug tiny potatoes taste better than larger ones. Unpeeled and cooked with fresh green beans, those small, tender spuds delight the taste buds.
Likewise, small moments, small items, and people of all sizes and backgrounds offer much. A saltshaker on our kitchen counter reads, “Happiness is found in little things.”
Never underestimate the power of the pint-sized. They may not carry great wealth or social status. However, many offer happiness neither wealth nor social status can give.
The God of creation loves everyone — a great plan for all creation to follow.
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me’” (Matthew 25:40 NIV).
Thanks to Carla Purvis for the suggestion. Photo courtesy of Unsplash.
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