Starting Simple Like Saint Francis Of Assisi

The Assisi countryside in Italy, like much of Europe in the 1200s, was dotted with chapels, churches, and abbeys, each dedicated to one saint or another. Some were well endowed, but many were neglected, and most had a priest who depended on the generosity of locals to sustain him and the church.
San Damiano, a little less than a mile below Assisi, was such a church. It was guarded by olive trees and had a sweeping view of the wheat fields on the plain below. The church itself was in general disrepair; the walls crumbled all about it, and the priest eked out an existence. He didn't even have enough money to buy oil, let alone a lamp, to burn continually in the church.
On one of his country walks, Francis of Assisi decided to step into the chapel. In scattered light, he made his way to the front to pray.
How long he prayed and what exactly he said is unclear. But sometime in the middle of his prayer, Francis heard Christ speak to him: "Francis, go and repair my house, which, you can see, is all being destroyed."
Francis, up to this point in his life, had never experienced such a direct spiritual communication. He was "more than a little stunned," one of his biographers notes, "trembling and stuttering like a man out of his senses."
He pulled himself up from prayer and then pulled himself together. He vowed to carry out the command as quickly and as literally as he knew how: he found masonry, mortar, trowels, and other supplies, and began repairing the church he had been praying in.
Francis later became the key figure in the 13th-century revival of the church, a church that was racked with moral corruption from the pope to the local priest. Francis, at least for a time, was able to stem the tide of immorality. But it is interesting to note how he began repairing the medieval church as a whole: he started with the little chapel in front of him.
A lot of times we wish we could change the world, and who knows, maybe we are called to that eventually. But we are wiser to follow the example of Francis of Assisi: to do the little thing, the simple thing right in front of us, and let God take care of the world. As Jesus put it, those faithful in small things will be faithful in large things.

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