“He shall be like a tree planted by living water…which brings forth food in its season”  (Psalm 1:3)

I have a friend who is well known. She has traveled the world and has seen and done things that I can only imagine. She posted this message yesterday…

“Who am I? I feel so ordinary. I was thinking back on my life, and this plain Jane thought… I have been to Vietnam and hid from the police for teaching the bible, I have been to Thailand and hung out with refugees who have watched there fathers murdered, mothers tortured and sisters raped, yet they are peaceful and content.. But I feel so ordinary, I feel like it is all vanity and I am humbled..” – DPS

She feels ordinary yet her life has been anything but ordinary. It made me realize that ordinary is where we need to be. Ordinary is where we learn, where we are most mold-able. Ordinary is where we are most prone to strive and look for the extraordinary. In the ORDINARY is where God dwells with us. Don’t despise the ordinary things and don’t keep running away from them. Because this life’s ordinary journey will take us to extraordinary heights.

So what am I thankful for today? I am thankful that I am ordinary.