Are You Willing To Be Small?

by Megan on November 1, 2011

What if your greatest contribution to the world (written in the stars) was something small?  You colored the frosting that covered the cakes for the people in your town.

You do it with love.  You are very good.

Are the small details of the day less important than the distance with which your product travels, the number of hits your website gets, the more someone calls your name?  How do you measure your existence?

Is quiet and diminutive less important?  Or can you perfect your role in the corps de ballet, knowing that you are part of something grand that sweeps across the stage?

I’d like to slow my life down, to let go of ideas of grandeur and success and find, peacefully, the place I’m most needed.  In this place I won’t feel burdened, but only in step with my inner workings.  Peaceful.  With sparkle.

This, I think, is what you take with you.  The way that you spent your time.  Not looking to be anointed, acknowledged, popularized, but only feeling your right place.

My frosting is light pink.  My cakes are small.  My love, part of the universal.

Are You Willing To Be Small?

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  • http://lisa-unmasked.com Lisa MB

    There is NOTHING small in the pretty, light pink frosting ways you have touched my life, Megan.  Thank YOU.  As the children’s book I used to read to my daughter proclaimed, “I’ll love you forever.”

  • Julie

    EXACTLY, my friend….
    xoxo

  • http://www.girlonfiredance.com Christine (Girl on Fire) Reed

    Excellent. Thinking about this so much lately. Ripping away those layers of “If my work is important, than I better…”  (Fill in the blank — write a book, be a star, make a video…etc.)

    Our work IS important. How can one quantify the value of that perfectly frosted cake? Or that hour spent dancing with 80 year old women?

  • http://www.theproductivitymaven.com Tara Rodden Robinson

    Dearest Megan,

    Thank you so much for the lovely post! I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. You are spot on!

    With love,
    Tara

    • http://www.idanceiwrite.com idanceiwrite

      You are most welcome! 

  • http://gracefulsimplicity.com/ Grace

    This was a beautiful post. I’m glad I found it.

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