Ordinary or Extraordinary

“It takes the extraordinary to make the ordinary.”

This morning, I woke up to the above quote. I put quotes around it because I’m convinced that someone said it, at least they said it to me, as i was waking up. Surely it didn’t come from my own psyche. And, if it did, I have no idea what it means.

So, since I’m the person who has to know and understand as much as possible in this life, I went on a hunting expedition. I looked it up on Google. I wanted to see who said it? Needless to say, I didn’t find anything with those exact words. Nobody ever said, “It takes the extraordinary to make the ordinary.” Therefore, I had no idea why I heard those words upon my morning awakening.

The fact that it caught my attention, and I remembered it, is saying something too. I normally don’t pay too much attention to my first thoughts in the morning. Today, I did. I felt the touch of the Master’s hand on my forehead (rhetorically speaking, of course). I did not feel any touch today. I didn’t feel a presence of God. It was merely a feeling, or rather, a hunch that maybe God was trying to tell me something. Of what — I do not know.

Maybe God is speaking to me, now, in parables? I about go crazy with research when I want to find out something. At. least that’s how it was in the past. In these days, I show an interest, and do a little research. And, if I do not find anything, well then, onward I go.

Help me, Lord, to discern right thinking and right thought…

Amen.