Ordinary Life

"We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."
Brennan Manning

Oh, how often I go searching for extraordinary experiences in order to encounter God...when He has been right here in the ordinary all along. The problem is that although I may come face to face with Him in those mystical, spiritual high experiences, those moments soon wither away, and I am back to my plain old simple life very soon. I love the fact that God reveals Himself most in the "ordinariness" of life...through the things that I see and experience on a daily basis. He is a God that shows Himself through the big, beautiful eyes of a child and through the brilliant colors of a sunset. Sometimes I just miss Him in the ordinary because I am so busy looking for extraordinary...