“Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I’ve found. I found it is the small things. Ordinary deeds by everyday folk that keeps the darkness at bay.” Gandalf
For a few weeks now, life out there in the Big World (as in Planet Earth) has been so very loud… Globally, dark things have been screaming for attention — While life in the small world (my personal life) has been raucous with the noises of a busy family summer.
It has been a cacophony of events and emotions- and the end result for me is to want nothing more than to stay small and quiet.
Small and quiet is a perch I enjoy, and a place I sometimes lounge in when life allows me to- but it is also a hovel that I run for when I feel unsafe. Despite the means I use to get there, the truth for me is that ‘small and quiet’ is my power spot. I am used to others not liking it- often when I ‘go there’ it results in some labels: The nicest of them is ‘Introvert, the slightly more judgy of them are, ‘Hermit and Recluse’ and my personal fave (read: pet peeve) – is to be labeled ‘Depressed’. As I age and become more self-aware of myself and my flaws, and more realistic about the operating system of the three-dimensional world, I care less and less about the labels.
It is true that we live in a world desperately in need of heroes…. Yes, the loud, flashy, news conference holding, social media blasting, loud and charismatic no holds barred heroes… But remember, it is not always the loud ones stomping their feet on rooftops who deliver the goods…Sometimes it is the small quiet heroics that accomplish the grunt work that makes the cog on the wheel we call life turn… This is true in both the Big World out there, and the small worlds that we all live within in our own lives.
If life makes you feel small and quiet sometimes, reach for the light and let yourself be small and quiet while you hold it…. remember that being strong does not always mean being loud…it is those small, sincere, nearly imperceptible acts of goodness that quietly carry the light into the darkness.
Be small, be quiet, and be relentless in your good.
Loud or quiet- this is the greatest power that we have.
“Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I’ve found. I found it is the small things. Ordinary deeds by everyday folk that keeps the darkness at bay.” Gandalf