The Ordinary Extraordinary

It's a lot easier to talk about the big issues in the world and in other people's lives than to live and walk in the everyday of our own lives.

The mundane, daily tasks, and the thoughts and to do lists we are dealing with right now can seem overwhelming, and not exciting enough.

Maybe we are living in the past, and wishing things were how they used to be.
Remembering makes us wish we were back there. But we can't change that.
Seasons change, we move on and so do other people. Life keeps moving.

Maybe we think everything will be better in the future, when we're married, we've had children, we have this qualification, we've got more money, etc...
But we're looking so far ahead, we're not really living and doing the things we need to at this moment. Not really present, not really participating in life.

Each day we wake up with hours in front of us ready to be filled.
With the daily tasks; with housework, phone calls, paying bills, feeding families, driving from here to there and back, and on and on...
It can seem that nothing of worth is being done.

Looking back, we wonder if we said anything lasting, anything that will make a difference tomorrow. Did my family feel loved, important, their needs met and satisfied?
Did I get anything done that will still be done tomorrow?
Was there any point to my day?

Then I read that Jesus walked and talked with normal, everyday people.
He ate with them, sat with them, lived amongst them.
He broke bread, and participated in the seemingly mundane of life, just like us.
He heard people, really heard them.
He came down to our world.

He showed us that as we live and work together, as we go about our daily business, we can leave footprints that make a difference.
A word here, a smile there, a touch of the hand.
A meal shared, a drink offered.

It's all normal, daily routine.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
But it is in the words, the smiles, the touches, the meals and the thirsts quenched that we share life.
And sharing life with each other is the ultimate way to show how much we love and care, isn't it?

Jesus shared life with ordinary people here on earth.
His words, His touch, His broken bread, His life poured out.

And so the mundane and everyday becomes a life giving, life changing gift.
In the small and ordinary, we find the big and extraordinary.