dailydatewithgod

If I remember that I am uniquely created, then I must acknowledge that my life and my experience is not going to be exactly the same as everyone else’s experience.  This allows for endless possibilities of how life can unfold.  It engenders hope and creativity.  But my mind will often default to the opposite of that.  I will look upon my uniqueness as some sort of default because it doesn’t match “normal.”  What exactly is “normal” anyway?  Sometimes I think “normal” is a concept created by us humans to keep us in line.  We like to categorize things and find safety in “knowing” how things are going to be. When we experience something outside that safety zone, we label it as not “normal.” This label then gets thrown around so much that we lose sight of what we were grasping at in the first place.  This would explain the expression, “the new normal.”  But what is “normal” to God?  Nature screams a few ideas:  diversity, beauty, and application.  What would my world experience be if my gauge for who I am and what is happening was beauty (love and charity), diversity, and application?  Then my question would not be is this normal it would be does this bring me closer to love?  Does the beauty of it draw me more in love with what I am seeing?  Does its uniqueness cause me to see God and the world in a new way? And does it allow me to apply more love in my life?  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to step outside of the question, “Is this normal?” and ask, “Is this love?”  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen