In ordinary time....

Never celebrate tomorrow what you can celebrate today.  -Scott Huler

In the struggle to to begin this new blog adventure of mine with something profound I have put off posting anything. Upon further reflection on what it is to live in "Ordinary Time" I decided that one short simple post would be better than a long robust musing on something is venturing to be profound, but quite possibly (and most likely) falling short.

It seems to me that we live in ordinary time hoping and waiting for the next moment (or season) of extraordinary. While the extraordinary is invigorating it is not the place were we spend most of life. We seem to have concluded that ordinary is synonymous with boring, dull and mundane. The problem with this way of thinking is that it undermines the value of each day of life and we are left deeply unsatisfied. If only the extraordinary is of value why do we spend so much time living in the day-in day-out? This can't be the abundant life Jesus came to give us.  Frankly, I am unsatisfied with being bored. While this may be motivation to finally do what I have been meaning to do, I risk seeing the normal, average and ordinary as the moments that shape my soul.

Laying in piles were winter's remnants of the death along the path to work this morning. Bringing to my attention the every changing seasons and passing of ordinary time. This is where life is lived. It would be charitable see the ordinary not as something other that it is but recognize the innate value of ordinary time by the mere fact of its consistency and longevity -God must have something for us in the ordinary.

So raise a glass to the ordinary. We don't have to wait till tomorrow to celebrate ..... ; it is here today in Ordinary Time.