In this life we search for significance. We want a sense of belonging and an acknowledgment that we are in our best place. Is the confirmation of such things Divine or intuition, or are the two the same? Occasionally along the way we catch a glimpse of what we are seeking. In my life such a glimpse is always a cause to celebrate. Have you ever had the pleasure of a day spent enveloped in the knowing? A day when you glide effortlessly, certain there is no ordinary life, A day lived as if you have somehow escaped the weight of the world?
A day when the server at breakfast is not merely the server. She's a single woman who raised her two nieces after her brother and sister-in-law divorced and were unable to care for them. The young women now grown are both mothers with families of their own. One is a doctors wife with a career of her own. The other is a pastor's wife with a music ministry. No ordinary life.
A day when a fellow agent shares with you that he works from home whenever possible in order to better care for his ailing spouse, the spouse the victim of a debilitating disease. You've worked together a year. He had not told you the story. He had never asked for help, never complained. No ordinary life.
A day when you meet a neighbor and comment on their nice home and well kept yard. They tell you their story about Habitat for Humanity making it all possible for them when there was no other way. They expound eloquently over triumphs over troubles you've never known revealing again, no ordinary life.
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