I went to church this morning at the Vineyard Church in Cincinnati, and I found inspiration for thinking about my life in the sermon.  The pastor, Joe, talked about why the he's decided to use Square 1 as a theme for his sermons this month.  As part of talking about Square 1, he talked about how, if we mess up the first step, or the most basic part goes missing, no matter how well the other steps are done, nothing will work.  In thinking about this, I found myself reminiscing and discovered that, often when I had failed to succeed part of the reason was a result of looking at the next big step, not the next small one.  When the steps I wanted to take came in periods of months or years aka, the "big picture" I allowed the small details to slip through the cracks, the details that would allow me to move on to the next step.  When I fail to do the little steps, I often miss experiences for the worse, and people who know me will tell you that I've missed a lot of little steps.  When I think about the next step, for example, I think about seminary, followed by a career in the pastorate. But in reality, the next step is going to class and forming relationships with my fellow students, or exercising, or blogging.  Finding the next big steps in our lives is important, just make sure not to miss the little ones.