Extraordinarily Ordinary

Journey
Originally uploaded by dopiaza.

it really IS all about the journey.

lately, i've been head-over-heels involved in a project. and not a project that needs just a little "tweaking" as Tom Hanks so eloquently says to Meg Ryan in my favorite movie. rather, this project is crazy involved. and it's a 'jump-off-the-diving-board-into-the-deepend' kinda' involved. except, that jump also involves jumping without knowing if there's water first.

i'd always thought moments of faith were preceeded by flashes of light and booming "james earl jones" voices. but my experience says, that it's a lack thereof.

no voice. no lightning. no big talking-picture story.

it's as if you're in a really windy place, and for a moment, the wind dies down. and there's that eerie silence. although not so eerie. and not so silent unless i make room for that silence.

doesn't make sense huh?

let me try again. faith is...

ordinary. everyday. constantly. moment-by-moment. in the dull. in the humdrum.

in my unfallen, blood-of-Christ-covered state, it's natural. all-the-while, it's supernatural.

in the end...it's...well, it's glorious. all-the-while, it seems, normal.


here's to a life lived as purposed...in a perpetual, ordinary, extraordinary freefall.