Monday 23 March 2009

An Ordinary Life


I wrote this and included it in our ladies seminar on Saturday. It is about how insignificant our lives can seem in regard to the lives of celebrities. Yet our lives become exraordinary if our life includes Jesus Christ.

There weren’t crowds awaiting news of your birth. The highest price wasn’t paid for the first glimpse of your little bald head. There wasn’t a discussion of your future role in society while you still wore nappies. There was no major interest of your antics at school, the small parts you had in your school play. There will never be world interest of photos of you walking the dog, putting out the rubbish in your pyjamas, wearing sweat pants while supermarket shopping or doing the unthinkable of stepping outside the door with no make up on yet again. Sparks won’t fly if you are spotted waving with a hairy armpit. Neither will there be queues at superdrug on the release of your new perfume. Sadly there won’t be airbrushed photos of you that make you look younger and younger as you get older and older. There won’t be colour spreads of your fashion disasters, before and after pictures of the amount of weight you’ve put on, took off, put on and took off again.. Alas there will be no Oscar, Emmy, or BAFTA on the mantlepiece that you tearfully dedicated to your Grandma. Flags won’t fly half mast on the day you die, there will be no announcement of your death on the news. But to the people around you, your family, your friends the people you live with or work with. You are a part of their world. You are being watched by them, your reactions, your choices, your decisions, are not missed by them as you journey through life. They watch Christ in you as you cross the finishing line surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.