Finding Joy in Smallness |
Joseph J. Bucci ——Bio and Archives--January 18, 2026
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"Do not despise these small beginnings for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin…” (Zechariah 4:10 NLT).
Why is smallness so despised? According to one author, we live in a world that loves big things (Ajao, 2025). When we are small children, we just want to be big, instead of enjoying the opportunity to be small. It is only the small children who can crawl in and out of jungle gyms, and those play sets in McDonald’s. Ever try and retrieve a child who did not want to leave on their own? I bet you wished that you were smaller.
For some reason, we always want to be big and all grown up. And then, as we get older, we wish that we could slow down the clock and be younger again. Small businesses dream of the day that they can be big businesses, rising to the heights from smallness like the garage start-ups Hewlett Packard, Mattel, the Walt Disney Company and Wham-O (Audia and Rider, 2005).
This is a story about enjoying each and every day and the small things that each day provides. There’s no sense in rushing ahead to that vacation that we will take in July. Why not enjoy the little things today that each day brings into our lives?
I remember with great joy starting out small when it was just myself and my wife when we were first married. Talk about smallness! We had very little, maybe two pennies to rub together as they say. We borrowed furniture from anyone we could, and pulled items from the trash that we could fix up or paint or refinish. We lived in a basement apartment with no windows except the light coming in from the front door. I called that place “the womb,” because it reminded me very much of the birthing process, with the child coming out of darkness into the bright light of the delivery room.
Those were some of our most precious times, as we depended on God and enjoyed each other’s company. I don’t look back and disdain the growth that occurred. It has been an incredible journey with my partner of 43 years and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. We are back to the smallness now, having had our kids find their way out of the womb—literally—and into their own relationships and different parts of the country.
The Bible is filled........