It’s the last day of 2008 and I’m sitting in my house waiting for a whole bunch of folks to arrive to help us see in 2009. Today, of all days, I find myself being grateful for the ordinary things of life.
It’s very cold outside and the central heating is doing its ordinary job of keeping the house warm.
The lights are shining so I can see what I’m doing.
The electricity socket is charging my laptop (it woke me up beeping away last night after I left it on stand-by for a few days and the battery finally ran out of juice).
The television is playing chitty-chitty-bang-bang in the ordinary way that it does.
The walls and windows are standing where they have for the last few years keeping the wind out and the heat in.
I’m sitting on a chair in the corner of the lounge, where it ordinarily is.
This is my ordinary life.
Today I feel very conscious that for much of the world my ordinary life is completely extraordinary. These ordinary everyday things only exist in their dreams, or in the pictures of a magazine.
Sometimes I get fed-up of my ordinary and long for something different, I forget that my life is already extraordinary. My ordinary is exactly what God wants from me.
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.”
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