EXTRAORDINARY!!

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 366
February 20, 2018///

Ordinary days! What makes a day ordinary? Is it that everything we do is routine, and nothing is really exciting? Is it the expected verses the unexpected? Is it going through our day in sheer boredom wishing for something different? Or is it the way we approach our day??????

What if we went through each day as extraordinary instead of ordinary?

Webster defines ordinary as: the regular or customary condition or course of things.

Extraordinary is defined as: exceptional to a very marked extent

So, if you add extra to ordinary you get extraordinary or exceptional.

On what we would define as ordinary days there is sunshine and rain, breath and life, hugs and laughter, pain and tears. Far from being routine these are blessings or situations that we can celebrate and/or conquer.

When the creator of the universe is your constant companion no day should fall into the ordinary category.

We may call extraordinary a trip or a cruise. We may call extraordinary a birth or a special anniversary. Maybe we see as extraordinary a wedding day or a promotion.

While those are extraordinary we should look at being able to clean the peanut butter off our child’s face or the mud off their shoes as extraordinary.

To sit across the table from one we love or watch a sunset or sunrise as extraordinary.

Extraordinary is to be able to go to a job and provide for our family: to be able to look into aged parent’s eyes and see alertness and joy: to be able to take a deep breath and wash our clothes!

Extraordinary is dropping our kids off at school and hugging them goodbye: to shop for those things needed and to smile at the clerk.

Extraordinary is to pray for our family, friends, church, neighbors, and country and to know that God is listening and hears and cares.

Who defines ordinary and extraordinary?? I believe that each day we are privileged to walk on this earth is extraordinary!!

Look around you and you will see multitudes of extraordinary things that are never recognized as such.

As children of the most high God we need to grasp each moment of each day as extraordinary. Enjoy it, love it!

When your child is getting on your last nerve or your boss or coworkers make you want to scream, remember how many weep for a child or need a job and understand that your day is extraordinary.

When you feel like you do not matter remember how each of our lives touch those around us.

There are no ordinary days, just ordinary thinking.

I challenge you to begin to see the extra in each day and understand that to live is extraordinary.

Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

We are Gods workmanship created to do good works. That can no way be described as ordinary.

Think extraordinary!!

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Father God, I come to you in Jesus Name. I thank you for my extraordinary days! I thank you that when you, the master of the universe, are with me nothing in my life can be ordinary. Touch each of us with the realization that our lives count, and each moment is indeed extraordinary. Amen

Love your extraordinary day and week and life!
Love, MeMaw