Where do you keep your spoons, Dear Reader? Are you a drawer with bamboo dividers kind of person, everything in its place . . . Or more of a crockery cook, kinda a messy bun approach to kitchen utensils?

There are different ways to serve, but we serve the same Lord.

1 Corinthians 12:5 ERV

The big move for my husband, Tom, and me starts TOMORROW. I’m not sure I’m ready, but there’s no stopping now.

The journey to our new home has been filled with many lessons, mainly about trusting God for provision. The unlikely heroines of this week’s lesson are spoons. They’re teaching me about trusting the Lord in big and little things.

One of the blessings God has provided for us is friends who have genuinely volunteered to help with the physical, logistical part of moving. A dear friend of probably more decades than either of us like to admit to, has graciously agreed to set up the kitchen while I do traffic control for incoming furniture and outgoing boxes. (Should I wear a neon vest for that?)

For all the years I’ve known and been in my friend’s home, it has always been organized and tidy. But, really, Dear Reader, trusting anyone with pretty much anything is a challenge for this control freak. What if I don’t where the spoons are a few days past the moving in and eating out stage?

Any level of control freakishness (is that a word?) can be hazardous. The fear of missing spoons is a crazy reminder that always wanting to be in control doesn’t foster trust with anyone, especially God.

Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6 AMPC

You know what, Dear Reader? In God’s infinite patience and mercy, He and the spoons are teaching me about trust, and reminding me He truly does care about everything in our lives, including spoons.

The smallest, most mundane things can be powerful in the hands of the Lord. Dear Reader, next time you reach for a spoon, I hope you’ll remember that your trust gives God joy, and He cares about everything in your life, even spoons.

Blessings in the learning!