Small beginnings and plumb lines

I'm not much for New Year's resolutions but this year circumstances are more or less making some for me.

Most beginnings are small: babies, for example.

I may be wrong but I think both Microsoft and ESPN started out in their owners' garages.

In fact, if something starts off with a big bang, well, be wary how long the energy lasts. The Big Bang itself remains unproven. (The only Bang in which the pieces beautifully came together...hmmm).

And then there was the big bang of last year's inaugural: where's all of that energy now? Ooops.

This January I'm looking at circumstances that seem like small beginnings. And this morning I am taken by this verse from Zechariah:

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand.

So some small beginnings are good things.

And a plumb line is what makes a construction project true; not off-kilter, not cluttered, but true. Plumb.

A small new beginning that is nevertheless plumbed. That is better than a large clutter of old things.

And through it all, the scent of the joy of the Lord.

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Zechariah 4.10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand.