A Matter of Pride
Ordinary Time
What is so wrong with being ordinary? Nobody wants to be ordinary. They want to be different. They may even believe themselves to be somehow different in a mighty hubris. They don’t want to admit that they are just human like all the rest of us. No better. No worse. Just human. It’s a matter of pride that would lead us to believe that we are somehow better or worse than the ordinary run-of-the-mill human.
Nobody wants to be ordinary so we go out of our way to be different, to stand out in the crowd, to prove we aren’t like everybody else when we know deep inside we truly are. An ordinary day, ordinary life, stability and security are equated with being boring in our world. I disagree.
An ordinary human loved extraordinarily by God.
What’s so bad about that?
When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son . . . Yet it was I who taught Ephrain to walk, who took them in my arms; I drew them with human cords, with hands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks. Hosea 11:1, 3-4
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