I was reading my friend Melissa's blog and re-lived the joy of having watched the TV movie, "The Magic of Ordinary Days" as she recounted her experience of watching it as well. I was moved by her honestly and emotion about it all. I was caught in thought about how much we tend to overlook what we deem "ordinary". I am just as big a culprit of doing this as many others are as well.
I then continued on my morning blog and comment reading adventure to read the UK BSU blog and was hit again about how I view my life in this post modern world. I often view my life in a way where I expect so many things and take a great many of my things and opportunities for granted. Having the privilege of experiencing another culture outside our American culture has been a blessing. Seeing how joyfully others can live without many of the material entanglements. Seeing how others stop to enjoy the ordinary things of life. Seeing other struggle with some of the same struggles in the different environment. It all causes me to re-evaluate in a healthy way.
Having recently returned from another country, revisiting my goals in life - physical, emotional & spiritual, submitting myself to be accountable to another Christian, reading the blogs and comments this morning, working on my walk witht he Lord my God and Savior. All of this has been adding up and fitting together in my head in that odd way that only things can add up for me. ;7)
I see where I need to reach out and take hold of friends, family and most of all my Lord. I am learning where to let go and turn away. The path the Lord has laid out is at times a fantastic journey, full of adventure and intrigue. At other times, this path is full of the ordinary which for me is really God's amazing splendor made real and understandable for dumb old me.
Thank you my God for those ordinary and extra-ordinary things in life.
fofinha posted at 11:57 AM
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