Beginning to See the Ordinary as Redeemed

In the rush of daily life, we look at many things, but “see” very little.

We ride through God’s creation so fast, and so preoccupied that we look out the window and “see” but a pale, fleeting impresson of the wonder that we are traveling through. When we walk or even ride a bike slowly, we allow ourselves to be part of it all – to actual participate in it all – and we begin to “see” the ordinary as remarkable and wondrous.

 

That is the stuff of good and great art – that which makes us “see” the ordinary again, or “see” the ordinary in a new way.

 

Taken further, how many of us live our lives at such a frenetic pace – very busy, with many “good things” that keep us very busy – that we “see” very little… A perfunctory quick read through a mini-devotional or listening to something spiritual on the ride to or from some place… a quick prayer… How many of us don’t take the time to “walk”, and allow ourselves to “participate”, and never get a sense of God in our real lives?

 

That is the stuff of the good and great “art” of being in the Spirit, and allowing the Holy Spirit a chance to make us “see” what He would have us see…

So, good art is like a good relationship with God – we begin to see as God sees –

the ordinary as remarkable, redeemed and wondrous…