The Secret of Ordinary

My life walks the line of ordinary. Nothing astonishing.

I haven’t traveled the world.

I haven’t spoken to thousands.

I haven’t written a best-selling book that changed lives (or any book, for that matter).

I haven’t given huge amounts of money or time to a life-altering cause. 

And I don’t have friends or family in high places (although they are wonderful). 

Each day sort of runs into the next. I do what needs to be done. It is easy to think such an ordinary life is expendable. 

But when I look at my sons, no longer babes, all eager to take on the world, my view changes.

• When I hear their prayers …
• When one relates the amazing ways he’s seen God work, another tells how he shared the truth with one lost, and yet another asks the deep questions that grow faith …
• When I hear how my daughter’s smile brought light to an otherwise dreary day … 
• When I take time to look at my life, not in light of my earthly accomplishments, but in what God is doing with such measly offerings … 

It is then I see:  the ordinary remains anything but ordinary in God’s hands.

When done in His name, the Lord changes our measly to His majestic.

He does the extraordinary with the ordinary. 

What ordinary has He transformed in your life? 

 “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13).

By His grace ≈

Julie

Linking with Lisa-Jo where a group of us write uninhibited for 5 minutes on a given topic. It is a wonderful exercise in letting the words flow. Click the button to check out more posts or consider linking up yourself. Today’s topic is “Ordinary.”