The responsorial psalm and gospel today reinforce this simple reality for me - God is here to help us with our daily lives.  The readings remind me of a saying my mother was fond of using: "God helps those who help themselves."  I don't think this folk wisdom encourages unilateral action, or a spirit of unfounded independence, although
it might for someone who doesn't reflect on God's role.  I think it means that we need to act in our lives, but that in acting God helps us. We can't be too passive, we must take some initiative.  As we do, God is there to help us.  God helps in the simple things, such as enabling  tomatoes to grow.  God helps in the sublime, such as appreciating the beauty of life itself.  God is with us in the big things too, obviously, but for most of us our days are filled with little things, long times of regularity only sporadically punctuated by the big things of life.

It is easy to forget to thank God for the red tomato, the glossy dark eggplant, the shiny green pepper.  I think our lives become richer though if we generate the habit of thanking and appreciating God in these simple things, for then when the big deals happen to us, we have the strength of all those quiet, regular, daily events to rely on.  We have the confidence to ask God for help, because we know that if God is with us in the little events of every day life, surely God is with us in the momentous times of crisis.