Comfortable With the Common

In a world bombarded by the urgent. In our lives so shaped by the pressing, the now, the "should-have-been-done-yesterdays." We often live from event to event. We spend our time searching for the next big thing to landmark our existence. As soon as we can just get that new job, that new relationship, that new success, that new goal, that new achivement...then our lives will really begin...In doing this, however we have missed the point, the point of living. The primary and principle function of our existence...to live our daily lives out, glorifying our Creator...being molded and shaped, being crafted and hewn into a vessel worthy of praising His name...this is carried out in the ordinary...the living, the breathing, the fellowship with those around you, the small actions in life, exquisite and mundane, glorious and ordinary...and yet often that which is most ordinary, is that which matters most, and in it's own right the most beautiful expression of God's love, mercy, and grace...


Thus, these words captured perfectly what is on my heart...


The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson


Be awed by the ordinary.