Can I find an ordinary day?

The date shocks me hard.

I feel my spine stiffen over time robbed.

When did it become March 1st?

Aren’t we supposed to have at least three more days this month? Ahem, February, why do you always have to cut us short? Don’t you know I need those hours, those days, those moments as I strive to find the ordinary in the midst of a life racing by?

It feels as though I’ve waited a decade for a series of ordinary days. I’ve waded through seasons of activity, change, and trials in hopes of the ordinary life.

Oh how I love when the calendar reflects empty hours of margin with no events, no appointments, no holidays, no deadlines.

Ah, is the ordinary life for me. When I could simply wake on my own, no alarm demanding my attention. When I could slip down the stairs, working ever so hard to not let one single one step creek, which has taken three years of choreography to perfect. I’d tip-toe to the coffee pot and brew one java hot to sip in the quiet of my chair with the Lord. Pajama clad, keyboard tapping, my day would press forth without. Without expectation. Without demand. Without a list. Without surprises. Without spontaneity. And without serving. Yes, I am not a servant at heart. It would be a simply ordinary day for me to live and breath and commune with God in my thoughts and words and worship alone.

This ordinary day is a gift from heaven. One I treasure more than a triple chocolate mouse layered cake topped with fresh tart strawberries.

Ah, but my life is anything but ordinary. It is filled to the brim with people and passions and purposes that chase ordinary away. Oh, that’s okay. I’m not complaining one bit. In those non-ordinary days are blessings that blow ordinary away with bursts of joy and declarations of God’s work.

See, I really don’t think that the life God designed was ever meant to be ordinary.

It is meant to be full (John 10:10), loaded with His gifts to serve and love and respond to the needs of His kingdom on earth.

It is the full life that brings me deep satisfaction. 

Too many ordinary days alone and I am sure I’d slip away into depression. There needs to be balance, a lesson I’m learning well.

And so, as I look to March, I think I’ll block off some ordinary days. Days of margin and rest, so that I can be refreshed by Him and overflow His peace all the more on the non-ordinary days of my life. And I’ll also be sure to give thanks for those oh so common non-ordinary days that mark my life full.

Will you be scheduling ordinary days into your March?

What would you like to overflow onto those non-ordinary days?

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