# The Little Daisies Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/the-little-daisies Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/the-little-daisies.md Podcast: [Thought For Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948) Published: 2026-06-14T03:10:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/thelittledaisies Audio file: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a2d6ccc3ae78329118ce2ea/1781454763909/TFT_140626.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/the-little-daisies Duration seconds: 206 ## Resource I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 14th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Matthew 10:42. Jesus says, ”And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.” Then we go to the Gospel of Luke 9:48, “Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me…”  I read a beautiful little article this morning by an anonymous writer and this is basically what it says: “Do not trample down the little daisies.” He says, ”We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities of doing good and communicating in reaching for the roses, we trample down the daisies.” So busy looking for the big things to do that the little things get stood upon! I remember like yesterday, we had one of the big tents here on the farm. It was Sunday morning. We’d had a wonderful weekend. All the ladies and children had come to join their dads and their husbands. There was an amazing atmosphere of expectancy. I was coming around the back of the tent with some of the men to get onto the platform and start to preach, and the people were waiting, and I was excited, and as I walked towards them at the back to the tent to enter in through one of the flaps, there was a little boy who ran up to me.  He was only about five or six years old. He had a red face, he was very embarrassed, but he had a cell phone in his hand, and he asked if he could take my photo with him. I said, ”By all means, young boy.” And I got on my knees, and he stood next to me, and the guys that were looking after me, around about me, said, ”Angus, you need to get going, the people are waiting. The praise and worship is… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/the-little-daisies/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/the-little-daisies.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.