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LITTLE THINGS

Rev. Andrew Jensen's first Sunday at his new church coincided with an appeal to the membership to give to a fund to aid the victims of a hurricane. Due to a clerical error, the center page of the bulletin was missing, so those in attendance reading from the bottom of the second page to the top of the last page would have read:

"Welcome to the Rev. Andrew Jensen and his family … the worst disaster to hit the area in this century. The full extent of the tragedy is not yet known."

—Reader's Digest, October 2001, p. 46 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Sometimes, little things like making sure the center page of the bulletin is inserted, make a huge difference.

Luke 19:17 NIV "'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'"

LITTLE THINGS

It isn't always the grand things of life that define a person's life. Scott Hoch's defining moment came while standing over a routine 2-foot putt on April 9, 1989. He missed it, and lost the Masters.

For Bill Buckner it was during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Buckner missed a routine grounder, blowing the game and a chance to win the series for the Mets.

—World Traveler, April 2000, p. 20 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Luke 19:17 NASB

"And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities.'

LITTLE THINGS

July 24, 2010 in Spearfish, South Dakota a small engine plane crashed and killed one person. The pilot and his wife were flying into the small airport from Montana. Upon his approach to the airport, he reported by radio that everything seemed to be normal until he began to make his final descent to enter the air traffic pattern to land. The plane lost power and he was forced to make an emergency landing in a field. The tragic news was that his wife lost her life in the crash.

The investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board found that a very basic procedure for flying this particular airplane was missed. The plane had a separate fuel tank in each of the two wings. During the flight, one of the items on the in-flight check list was to switch the tanks so that they would not run out of fuel. This simple mistake on the checklist for the flight cost this man his wife.. —Jim L. Wilson and Doug Hixson

www.ntsb.gov NTSB ID #CEN10LA430

Luke 16:10 (CSB)

Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.