Neal A. Maxwell wrote:
“When like a big bolder, a large blessing rolls visibly into place, it is certainly noticed, appreciated, and counted. Meanwhile, however, the less-noticed, pebble-sized blessings mount up, layer upon layer. Cumulatively the latter may out mass our large blessings and are frequent subtle signals that He is mindful of us.
Because both large and small blessings reflect the beneficence of God, we’d better be aware of both, thankfully and constantly, and make honest and full inventories. God’s hand is certainly in the pebble like details as well as in the large panorama, and his ways of measuring are so much better than our ways.
Though He sends “rain on the just and the unjust” (Matthew 5:45)—both the deserving and the undeserving—blessings are dispensed according to our obedience to the laws upon which they are predicated (*). Nevertheless, when God blesses us, He does it with the Malachi measure, and the harvest baskets are pressed down, and shaken together and running over” (Luke 6:38; Malachi 3:10).
Besides, for us, blessing size is clearly not as important as Blessing Source. ~Neal A. Maxwell, Whom the Lord Loveth (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003)
