The Infinite in the Ordinary

• Evening dog walk - ordinary

• Sidewalk - ordinary

• Hair tie - ordinary

• All together - something that speaks of the infinite

Last night I was walking Scout before dinner when I saw this hair tie that had fallen on the ground on a driveway leading to the street.  I didn’t arrange it like this - it is just how it was when I saw it.  The symbol for infinity there on the concrete.

That’s what I love about what has been growing in me over the last decade or so and what I hope to foster in others - finding the infinite in the ordinary.  We don’t have to have those mountaintop, extraordinary, miraculous, incredible, like-nothing-else moments to experience the infinite.  Sometimes the infinite can simply be seen in a hair tie that just happened to fall a certain way on a section on concrete as a guy walked by with his iPhone camera while walking his dog at the end of the day.

That’s one of the many things I love about Jesus.  Yes, Jesus did the miraculous and amazing.  But so much of what he did was in the stories of the ordinary things people knew - relationships between parents and children, coins, animals, candles, employment...just to name a few.  He used these ordinary things to speak of the extraordinary love of God.  Currently, I’m trying my best to imitate this by using Legos to try to help the congregation I serve experience something new from the Sermon on the Mount as we spend time with it in the weeks right now before Lent.  Hopefully they are hearing the infinite in the ordinary.  That’s my prayer for them, for me, for all of us.

The infinite in the ordinary.