Taking Small Steps

Sometimes it can be hard to know what to do or what step to take next. Kenneth Morefield’s thoughts on Ecclesiastes give us some wisdom when we feel stuck. Morefield says, “‘In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good’ (11:6). The appropriate response to a world that overwhelms us intellectually and scandalizes us morally is not despair but incremental, daily, faithfulness. Just a...