Ordinary?

Ordinary? I hope not. I am not "okay" with living an ordinary existence. And I pray every day that my children are not/will not be either. I want to instill in them the love of Christ. I want them to be passionate about Him and about doing His work. But it is hard in a society filled with earthly pleasures tempting each of us every day. Not that earthly pleasures are all bad, and I'm not saying we must be miserable here on Earth to be doing God's work. I believe quite the opposite-we will be filled to overflowing when our hands are doing His work. But our focus must be on Him and not the latest and greatest.



I'll be honest and say that I struggle. I struggle daily with being selfless instead of selfish. Not to make excuses for myself, but I am human and I do sin. I get angry when people say "To be like Christ is impossible", because to me that is such an easy way out. Try. Try hard. Nothing worth having is every easy.



Our adoption process has done amazing things to my spiritual walk. God has had to sit me down time and time (and time and time and time!!) again and say "BE STILL!!"...."WAIT FOR ME!"...."HAVE FAITH!". And he's had to shout those things quite loudly over my protests many times. It's hard for me to take a step back and leave it all in His hands. Truthfully, I want to have a say, but that's not how He works and I'm so glad He doesn't!! Where would I be if he did?

We watched Fireproof again a few weeks ago and Kirk Cameron said something that hit me like a ton of bricks-

"How am I suppose to show love to someone over and over and over, when they constantly reject me?!"

Umm...HELLO!! Another wake up call?!

My challenge to each of you is to be different. Don't settle for ordinary. Be the extraordinary that God calls each of us to be.

In Him,

E