Just an Average Day

It's been quite a while since I last posted. Much goes on in the day to day life.....and that's the problem with life....indeed it is so daily (can't remember where I heard this, but there is a ring of truth in it). Of course what is meant by this is that there is so much to occupy our time that life itself seems somehow to be an exercise in the mundane. But the mundane is what we see if our focus is inward, narrow, and forgetful.....we forget that even the mundane is a work of God in our lives, that we take the ordinary or stability of everyday life for granted. Maybe this is why we are confounded by the abrupt occurrances in life, until we are brought round about again to the One who ordains all things. We are transformed when the "non-ordinary" things cause us to seek the One who surgically places them into our lives. Indeed we are creatures of habit, and perhaps that is why we view the common everyday experiences as ho-hum, rather than to see them as a gift of God, each day a new opportunity for being thankful. Not only should we be thankful in these "daily" things, but thankful that our God continually calls us back to His reality, that is, that when we need Him most, He lets us know it by interrupting our complaints about the mundane to remind us that there is ultimately nothing ordinary about the ordinary. After all, the words "ordinary" and "ordain" share the same root.