Offer the Ordinary
It has been a few weeks since I’ve written anything, and quite honestly, I considered taking a break from writing. The reason for both is the same: since coming back from Togo, France, Greece, and Kenya life has just been so...well, normal. Uneventful, I’m tempted to say. And for some reason, I’ve equated normal and uneventful with uninteresting. Not worth writing about. After all, I’m not delivering a hundred babies a month anymore or feeding refugees or sharing the gospel in the African bush. I’ve been doing a lot of picnics with my mom, bike rides with my dad, and quiet moments with Jesus. And how do you make entertaining stories out of that? When I first started writing this blog, it’s first design had a banner across the top that read something like this: the presence of God turns the ordinary into extraordinary . I’m embarrassed to say that I actually forgot how it read exactly, which explains why I’ve wandered from it’s motivation. This blog was int...