When I started traveling with the carnival years and years ago, I learned so many surprising things about human nature, traveling, moving, and the art of persuasion. One of the really hard-to-believe things was how the rides and games were held together. Many, if not most, of the connecting pieces were held together with a small metal device known as an R-Key:
When the rides and games were being torn down and packed up to move to the next town, the R-Keys were removed and thrown into metal coffee cans for storage. After arriving in a new town, set-up began, so the coffee cans were unpacked and the R-Keys reconnected the pieces.
Such a small thing doing such a big job.
It reminds me of the parable of the mustard seed. In Luke 17:5-7 it says "The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!' And the Lord said, 'If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you."
I love that we're not asked to have bushels and bushels of faith...just a tiny seed. God asks that we give the small that we're able to give, and he makes it count in the huge ways that only He's able to do!
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