It is amazing how life rolls on. Every morning the alarm goes off and I drag myself out of bed. Even on days after the Election, we’re all still faced with a rising sun and another normal day of school and work and to-do lists.

In a way, every day life is very ordinary. At time it feels mundane. Boring.

But is it?

Sometimes it feels like that. Sometimes it feels like my life is a very poor pool of inspiration for great stories. After all, my life is pretty normal.

But inspiration doesn’t work like that.

Inspiration, creativity, wonder…they don’t depend on an “exciting” life. You don’t have to travel the world or go to an amazing college or have a spontaneous day in order to cultivate the skills of creativity.

Cultivate creativity with wonder.

In reality, there is no such thing as an “ordinary” life. When God gave breath to man, there was nothing ordinary about it. When He gave us each our personal assignment in life, there was nothing ordinary about His sovereign wisdom.

Normal is just a word. My “normal life” is really a story of miracles and amazing, unfathomable, knowable grace.

Believing that life is mundane and boring will kill inspiration and creativity.

Believing that life is an amazing, undeserved gift will open eyes to see reality in a different light. And that seeing will give life to a creative soul.

 

“I want to be a noticer, a studier, one who looks into all these questions of life and sees into the corners of every speck of dust and shaft of sunlight.  But in practice it isn’t so easy.  It takes practice to learn to see to the heart of life, to find all the miracles around us.  How much easier are the busy tasks that keep us wandering around our homes, snatching handfuls of snacks and wondering nothing more than where all the time went.”