JOURNEY THROUGH THE ORDINARY

Last Sunday was the second Sunday of Pentecost and the beginning of Ordinary Time.  
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Ordinary Time. So much of every life is spent doing ordinary things. When we go through life, we observe so many things that we would consider to be ordinary things. And because they are ordinary, we don’t seem to remember them. If you question this, just try to remember what you ate for supper last week or last month.  ​

The season after Pentecost is also known as Ordinary Time. It is strange, really. The Christian calendar starts at Advent in anticipation of Christ’s inbreaking into the creation at Christmas, then moves toward Resurrection and then from Resurrection through mystical appearances of Jesus to fire from heaven and speaking in tongues to a church that sounds like a Marxist boot camp to . . . Ordinary Time. Nothing earth shattering, just the regular rhythms of life. 

In the following months there is an invitation to follow God through the normal landscapes of our lives. It is not an invitation to the spiritually monotonous. We’re invited to find the unusual, the unbelievable, and the wonder of daily life. We journey through the mundane to discover the rhythms of faith. The mundane is transfigured and magical.  

For all the hustle and bustle of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, the truth of the matter is that God is the God of Ordinary Time. All the ordinary, regular, forgettable years. It has all been a journey. Sometimes we just haven’t noticed.  

Ordinary holds such promise! All of life is quite extraordinary. 

Peace, 
Travis Segar 
Pastor for Care and Community