I took this photo Saturday at Mount Cheaha State Park.  (At 2,407 feet above sea level, Cheaha Mountain is the highest point in Alabama.)  It was a beautiful afternoon and I was standing at “Bald Rock”, which overlooks the Talladega National Forest.  It is a breathtaking view from this vantage point which you reach by walking down a long boardwalk (1/4 mile or so).

After enjoying the cool breeze, warm sun, sights and sounds of this place for a while, I looked up into the trees and saw these acorns.  I am not sure why they caught my eye or held my attention for so long, but afterwards, I remembered what Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.“  And as I looked over the Talladega National Forest below me, these acorns did not seem so insignificant.

We look over many small things in our lives every day and pay them little mind.  Many times we fail to consider the tiny things all around us; or we just take them for granted .  We look for the big, the shiny or the popular and pay little notice to, “the little things”.  We notice the “Important” people, the successful, the loud and often fail to see those Jesus called, “The least of these”.

Today, let’s stop and take notice of the “Little Things” all around us.  Let us be thankful when we look up and see the acorns in our lives.

Something to think about:

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  Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

• Large streams from little fountains flow,
  Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Your Little Buddy
Rickey Moore