Wednesday arrives on your
doorstep to announce a new day, what is awaiting you today? Pause with me to ponder, “what is on your
mind and in your heart right now?”
The phrase, “beautiful
ordinariness” is one that I am living with this summer. So often we crave, cultivate, and want to
create the “special and spectacular”. We
deeply desire the extraordinary. We live
in a world where internet influencers are famous for being famous.
Where constant comparison
chatters chaotically in our minds throughout the day offering unhelpful color
commentary to how we live our lives in the light of what we see/read about
others.
Where we think our
thoughts are facts rather than seeing how our brains can twist and turn things
that may or may not be true; how our minds can come up with countless fictional
problems to be solved. We can hoard
feelings, past hurts, words someone said to us, storing all that in boxes
within our hearts. On top of that we constantly
return to rummage around those internal boxes reliving the pain.
We keep striving because
boredom or feeling unnecessary is too difficult. We volunteer and go to meetings and keep our
calendars fill believing that if we rest, we rust.
It was once believed that
because of modern inventions, the forty-hour work week would be more than cut
in half and people would have abundance of leisure time. Seriously, the economist John Maynard Keynes
once said his grandkids would work just 15 hours a week! We bought into the script that if you work
hard now, one day you can enjoy your retirement. How often do we keep on keeping on, perhaps
seeing life as a struggle rather than an adventure?
We need a grace of enough-ness
to intercede and interrupt, O God. We
need a love that we don’t earn, but is given.
Just given. God’s love is not
deserved because of good actions, or right beliefs. God love is…just because. Hear God saying to you, “You are beloved so
that you can be in that love.” Please
re-read that statement. We connect
to the Source of Love to be a source of love.
Love is generative and generous. God
calls us to compassion that we might offer in words and actions this day. We receive the peace of God’s Presence that
the world needs more than ever. My
prayer for you on this Wednesday is that you would know and live from a place
of unconditional love and unceasing grace.
That this holy truth would be experienced and explored in your life
today. May the “beautiful ordinariness”
of this day open you to the One who is co-authoring your life every day. Amen.
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