The Flower and the Thorn

took the History test today.
ended up getting a 102% out of a 105 possible...
(i missed one and got 5 points bonus for my wonderful reply to the essay question asking why "the Middle ages truly were the dark ages and two factors that helped bring about the Renaissance")
Its really amazing how God uses what at first glance may seem insignificant to bring about a great change. Consider this: in 1440, Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but before the invention of the movable type press, pages of books would have to be completely carved out of wood. When you were done with one page, you would carve out the next page. now i don't know about you but I think that would drive me to insanity... but I digress. Because of the invention of movable type, Bibles were able to be printed much faster and production costs were cheaper, and thus Bibles were made available to the common people. When the people started to read the Bible for themselves instead of relying on the pope they saw just how screwed up things were, which brought about the Renaissance, which revived an interest in learning, which also helped spread Protestantism and true Christianity. So whenever I think that I'm not making a difference, I just think about how God can use the smallest things to do His work. It may seem insignificant, but its not! :)