**Sometimes the thing making something valuable feel broken is a problem that costs less than a dollar to fix.**
Noah has a six-drawer dresser.
At least, it was supposed to function like one.
Not long after we got it, one of the drawer handles came off. The drawer was fine. The handle was fine.
The problem was two tiny screws with the wrong threads.
And because I never took the time to fix them, Noah basically had a six-drawer dresser that functioned like a five-drawer dresser.
For months.
Then I finally took the handle to Lowe’s, found the right thread and length, spent almost nothing, and fixed it in a few minutes.
That’s when it hit me:
**It wasn’t a dresser problem. It was a two-screw problem.**
How often do we do the same thing in life?
We say:
**“This isn’t working.”**
Our routine.
A relationship.
Our health.
A habit.
Something at work.
But sometimes the whole thing isn’t broken.
Sometimes there’s one small problem we’ve tolerated for too long.
One conversation.
One apology.
One task.
One adjustment.
One little thing quietly creating friction in something much bigger.
Song of Solomon 2:15 talks about **“the little foxes that ruin the vineyards.”**
Sometimes it isn’t the giant disaster that causes the problem.
It’s the little thing we keep ignoring.
So here’s the question for today:
**What is your 50-cent problem?**
What small thing have you been tolerating that is keeping something bigger from working the way it should?
Sometimes the whole thing isn’t broken.
Sometimes it just needs the right screw.
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