{"id":1200,"date":"2016-01-15T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:20:33","slug":"the-extraordinary-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2016\/01\/15\/the-extraordinary-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"1:15:16 Extraordinary\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Extraordinary.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>by Lydia Floren<\/p>\n<p>We spend most of our lives doing ordinary tasks. \u00a0We may be stirring a pot, or bandaging a scrape, or commuting to work. \u00a0We may be taking a class, or hammering a nail, or tending a sick patient.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid 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src=\"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Traffic-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2016\/01\/15\/the-extraordinary-ordinary\/11516-bandaid\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-BandAid-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2016\/01\/15\/the-extraordinary-ordinary\/11516-hammer\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Hammer-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>God is in these moments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The secret of contentment is to celebrate God\u2019s presence in our ordinary lives. \u00a0When we welcome Him in to our every-day, He blesses even the most mundane activities with a transcendence<\/strong> that is akin to worship.<\/p>\n<p>Our ordinary is extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>How have you experienced the extraordinary ordinary?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Sunray.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1205\" src=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/11516-Sunray-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"1:15:16 Sunray\" width=\"625\" 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The secret of contentment is to celebrate God\u2019s presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[10,24],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-gods-love","tag-joy","tag-thankfulness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Extraordinary Ordinary - Belovedlove<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2016\/01\/15\/the-extraordinary-ordinary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Extraordinary Ordinary - Belovedlove\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Lydia Floren We spend most of our lives doing ordinary tasks. \u00a0We may be stirring a pot, or bandaging a scrape, or commuting to work. \u00a0We may be taking a class, or hammering a nail, or tending a sick patient. 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