One Small Thing

By my friend, Rob Merola:

The principle was that although we might not be able to change the whole world, we could affect our little corner of it. So one summer we got together a small group of people who mostly just pulled weeds in a garden at church.

We found doing so was profoundly… calming. And that let us approach the bigger problems before us in much healthier ways.

These are anxious times, and they are plenty of people seeking only to make us more anxious still. There are plenty of messages out there  sent to inflame our fears. And, truth be told, there is plenty of chatter simply within our own minds telling us we have a lot to worry about.

I wonder: is there something we can do that might calm us instead? And then, instead of just serving our anxieties, individual and corporate, might we instead find even one small thing we can do to make this a better day, and the world—or at least our corner of it—a better place?