The Mundane
Today I go back work at the church library. I had taken time off to be with family during the holidays, and Sunday, our son goes back to college in Texas. Today seemed like a good day to return to my "mundane" tasks of preparing books to be shelved. Books, that frustratingly, few people will check out. Life returns to the ordinary routine. So, I asked myself this morning, what is good about the mundane,ordinary things in life?
I found the answer to be that ordinary days give us routine, and we need routine in life. Routine gives us rhythm to life. But I also found that ordinary days become extraordinary days with Christ. He gives us another day to breathe, another day to serve, another day to be a light to shine in this dark sin-infested world. Even all alone in the church library, I can have a day of wonder. The last time I was in the library before winter break, I came across a commentary by Paul Kretzmann, and I sat and read from it about Jesus' baptism. I left rejoicing in what Christ did for me, for all of us, in His baptism. That day was an extraordinary day.
Do we look for the extra-ordinary in the mundaneness of our days? What would happen if we did? How would that change us? "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118.24) Do we rejoice in it? Or do we allow the bland and the ordinary to rob us of seeing the day with our spiritual eyes?
I hope you have an extra-ordinary day today, dear Reader!
I found the answer to be that ordinary days give us routine, and we need routine in life. Routine gives us rhythm to life. But I also found that ordinary days become extraordinary days with Christ. He gives us another day to breathe, another day to serve, another day to be a light to shine in this dark sin-infested world. Even all alone in the church library, I can have a day of wonder. The last time I was in the library before winter break, I came across a commentary by Paul Kretzmann, and I sat and read from it about Jesus' baptism. I left rejoicing in what Christ did for me, for all of us, in His baptism. That day was an extraordinary day.
Do we look for the extra-ordinary in the mundaneness of our days? What would happen if we did? How would that change us? "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118.24) Do we rejoice in it? Or do we allow the bland and the ordinary to rob us of seeing the day with our spiritual eyes?
I hope you have an extra-ordinary day today, dear Reader!
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