Little Foxes

One bright Saturday morning a friend was getting married. The day would have been better had the groom’s men not have spent the better part of the night at a bachelor's party which had consequently resulted to us being late.

We matched down the church aisles high as a kite but it was a beautiful day and everyone was happy… well, save for the chaplain who was livid. She was breathing brimstone and hellfire when we arrived and was threatening to call off the whole thing! I tend to think she had left some food in the refrigerator and didn't want her husband to get home before her and eat it. You know the feeling right? And  I'm sure this thing with food just doesn't end with siblings (my married people, do y'all ever get home and find your spouses ate that cake you had been drooling about all day and feel like skinning them alive ama it just ends with siblings?)

She eventually managed to calm down and went ahead to give one of those simple yet deepest sermons I have ever heard. I, however, doubt the couple of the day remembers a word she said. She read this verse and it's stuck in my head ever since. 'Catch the foxes, the little foxes, before they destroy the vineyards' that has forever rung in my head. And she went ahead to describe how it would not be the big fights that would threaten to wreck their marriage but the small things - she called them little foxes - the forgotten birthday, the misplaced cuffs, the raised voice and a huge lot of little things that I can’t exhaust. That has remained with me to date. Don't you think it's the small things that matter? Heck even Vincent Van Gogh said 'great things are done by a series of small things brought together.' So it's really the small things that matter.

Have you checked on your partner? Do you text or call them often? Do you ask how they're doing? Is what important to them important to you? Are the small foxes let to roam your vineyard? Are the little foxes preventing you from blossoming? well, if yes, you can take a step today and start catching them one by one and just see how beautiful your relationships will be. Today is the best day to start coz tomorrow might be too late. Mend those fences. Seal the leaking holes. Nurture greatness and watch how y’all glow. Stop reading now and go be better.