Troubles and "Little Things"

Something I have also had on my mind at times (from TS) :

... when I hear the caller ask a question that had long been on my mind: how can you prepare for future troubles in the present. How do you prepare and emotionally and spiritually? There is a tendency to want to make things tough for yourself if only to train, to prepare, to exercise the “disaster response muscle” in the face of the cataclysm that all the poets feel in their bones is coming. I think of the case of the wise virgins, and want to have my lamp filled. But Akin said a surprising thing: “You don’t prepare. You can’t. God gives us what we need when we need it.

My answer comes from Scripture:

Well done, thou good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place the over many things: enter thou into the joy of the Lord. (Matt 25: 21)

and from St. Jose Escriva:

You tell me: when the chance comes to do something great, then ...! Then? Are you seriously trying to convince me-and to convince yourself-that you will be able to win in the supernatural Olympics without daily preparation, without training? (The Way #822 Little Things)

This is not to say that I am disagreeing entirely with Mr. Akin. Surely God gives us what we need-but do we accept it? The acceptance or openness to what God wants to give us when we need it comes from the same openness, or should I say faithfulness, we have in the untroubled times: in the "little things" like daily prayer and small mortifications. (and I think having your lamp full as the wise virgins had, is another example of a "little thing".)

Glad this came to mind. I need to take care of some "little things".

Oremus pro invicem!