I've always been concerned when people express disappointment and sadness about being "common." They say they're "nothing special," and sometimes sigh in personal resignation to a sad malaise, as if ordinary life is blasé at best. They feel normal and they don't like that feeling one little bit. Who wants to be common?
There's no denying such thoughts occasionally intrude on all of us, draining us by pulling the plug on our sense of significance and exhausting our passion for life. After all, if I'm convinced I'm nothing special, why would I think I could do something special? If common means ordinary and universal, how can my life be something wonderful and rare?
Who wants to be common, unless of course, "common" is really "uncommon"...and the notion that anything in God's marvelous creation is ordinary and universal is simply not correct?
What if the opposite is true? What if nothing is "common" and no one is ordinary?
You can't look at a "common" Desert Sparrow and think, "Ho-Hum. How familiar." Though it's not cloaked in brilliant plumage, and it's not the biggest bird in the sky, it's remarkable. You can't ponder the miracle of its life and think, "How trivial." You can't study its feathers, hear its song, watch it fly or consider its niche in the ecosystem and say, "How unimportant and meaningless. If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all."
No. That's just not so.
Spend only a few moments during this Lenten Season considering the miracle of one little bird, and it's place in God's creation. You inevitably arrive at a logical, reasoned and humble appreciation for the unique and wonderful miracle of "uncommon" significance in the delicate and miraculous intricacies of each "common" life.
What is common is uncommon, and what is uncommon is common to us all.
Your life matters. So does mine.
We have this one thing in common, the uncommon importance of a unique and wonderful God-breathed-life. You were made for significance. Your life has purpose.
Your life-story will give God glory...and nothing could be more special than that!
1 Peter 4:10-11 - God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings. Are you called to preach? Then preach as though God himself were speaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies so that God will be glorified through Jesus Christ—to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
VERY COOL,, thats all I have to say
RW
Posted by: Ron W | March 05, 2009 at 08:35 AM