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The Speck I Could Barely See · The Seed Project

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  Hey, friend.
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  Welcome to Sunday Seed.
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  I'm Charlotte Edwards, and I believe small seeds create big impact.
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  Each week, we'll plant one.
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  Let's dig in The other morning, I put my contacts in like I do every day, and immediately I knew something was wrong.
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  There was something in my eye.
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  I took out the contact, rinsed it, and put it back in, and whatever it was, it was still there.
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  So I tried again.
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  I, I held it up to the light.
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  I couldn't see anything.
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  I rinsed it again, checked my eye, put the contact back in, and blinked a few times.
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  Nope, still there.
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  And this went on probably for about fifteen minutes.
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  Eventually, I found this tiny little speck on the contact.
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  I have no idea what it was.
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  It was probably a piece of grit, dust, or makeup.
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  It was so small I could barely see it.
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  My eye, however, knew exactly where it was.
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  And that's what's ironic.
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  We use the word small all the time as another way of saying something that doesn't really matter.
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  It's just a small thing.
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  Eh, it's no big deal.
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  But those aren't actually the same thing.
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  That speck was tiny, but its effect wasn't.
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  And that's not unusual when you think about it.
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  A small pinch of salt can change the flavor of an entire dish.
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  You don't need much.
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  In fact, you probably don't want much.
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  But leave it out, and you'll notice the difference.
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  Even scripture uses the contrast between something tiny and something powerful.
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  Jesus talks about faith as small as a mustard seed being able to move a mountain I don't think the point is that small things are secretly big.
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  They're still small.
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  The speck was small, a pinch of salt is small, and a mustard seed is really small.
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  Small just doesn't mean insignificant, and I think that's where we get things mixed up.
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  Because when it comes to things that we say and do every day, we can dismiss them because they don't seem like much.
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  A few words of encouragement can feel small to the person saying them, and completely different to the person hearing them.
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  The same thing can happen with a thought.
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  One thought seems like nothing, but repeat it often enough and it can start changing the way you see yourself.
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  That's the part we can't measure.
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  We can feel the speck in our eye, and we can taste the salt, but we don't always get to see what our words change for someone else, and we may not notice what our repeated thoughts are changing in us until much later.
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  But that doesn't make their effect any less real.
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  We tend to judge significance by size, but significance isn't really about how big something is.
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  It's about what it changes.
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  So now when I hear,"It's just a small thing," I think my eyeball will have something else to say about that.
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  Small tells us something about size.
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  It tells us absolutely nothing about significance.
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  That's your seed.
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  Now go plant something good