Follow the Breadcrumbs: Finding God’s Path in Everyday Moments

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Jul 11
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Updated: Jul 27

— Millicent V. Brown

Sometimes it’s the smallest steps—and the tiniest breadcrumbs—that lead us to God’s greatest purposes.

Follow the Breadcrumbs

There are days I sit staring at the work I “should” be doing—deadlines looming, responsibilities pressing—and yet I feel God quietly tugging me in another direction.

That’s exactly how this blog began.

I was supposed to be finishing my report and notes, but instead, I found myself on a call with one of my nieces. She reached out, asking how I was doing and how my project was coming along. In our last conversation, she’d opened up about her mother’s declining health and her husband’s ongoing medical issues. She carries the weight of family, business, motherhood, and community. And now… even more burdens have found their way onto her shoulders.

She reached out not just for an update—but, I think, for someone to truly see her. To hear her heart. To be present.

Seeing Interruptions as Assignments

As we spoke, I realized that rather than seeing these moments as interruptions, they are often the real assignments God sends us. After all, people are more important—His sheep.

Isn’t this what our life is meant to be all about?

Isn’t this what God does for us—never seeing us as an interruption or as unworthy?

Wow. That’s what we all need: someone who hears us… someone who sees us… someone who believes we’re worthy of their time and listening ear.

It makes me grateful that God never turns His ear, His shoulder, or His arms away from us—especially in our most vulnerable moments.

Even in the Garden of Gethsemane, God was there with His Son in the midst of His distress… right there, hearing every cry, right there giving Him the strength and courage to follow through and complete His assignment—His purpose.

Nevertheless… not His will, but God’s. Not His will, but His Father’s.

Hope instead of despair… strength instead of weakness… kindness, compassion, and gentleness instead of anger and frustration… and yes, even forgiveness instead of unforgiveness.

Isn’t this what God’s love is all about? After all, it’s the root—the very foundation—of His fruit of the Spirit. None of it makes any sense without His love.

Breadcrumbs Leading Us Home

Sometimes God drops gentle breadcrumbs into our day—a phone call, a memory, a small voice saying, Check on her. Pray for him. Pause and listen. Those are divine nudges pointing us back to the Bread of Life Himself.

My niece and I both admitted we’re tired. Overloaded. Torn between wanting to help others and needing to find stillness for our own souls. Yet God reminds me—and maybe you—that the Kingdom work often isn’t in the spectacular. It’s in stopping for the one who needs to know they’re not alone.

Even if the laundry’s unfinished. Even if the meeting notes remain unwritten.

Each breadcrumb leads us closer to the true assignment: loving God and loving people.

So today, maybe the question isn’t “How much can I get done?” but rather:

“Where is God dropping breadcrumbs for me to follow?”

Reflection Questions

Have you noticed any “breadcrumbs” God is dropping in your path right now?
Are you so focused on your own deadlines that you might miss the real assignment God is placing in front of you?
Who might God be nudging you to check on—or simply see—with fresh eyes and a listening heart?

Prayer

Father,

Thank You for the gentle breadcrumbs You place in my path—reminders to pause, to listen, and to love. Help me not to miss divine moments because I’m rushing through my own plans. Give me eyes to see the true assignments You’ve given me today. Lead me always back to You, my Bread of Life.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.