I've been doing some thinking about how the miraculous often blends in with our everyday, ordinary lives and is oftentimes overlooked. Take today for instance. I cooked, I cleaned, worked on laundry, made sure I had the date right for picture day... Business as usual. But somewhere in the middle of my ordinary day, something clicked and "Transforming Tuesday" was born.
I'd been remembering playtime with Jaylee Sunday night. She was doing some cooking for my hand puppet and he asked her for some rainbows to eat. "Okay," she answered happily and then she went to work, humming and cooking away. Then it occurred to the puppet, aka Mommy, that he wasn't exactly sure what rainbows were made of. "How do you make rainbows?" he asked a very busy Jaylee. Her answer was a rainbow right there in the middle of the living room that night.
"Hmmm... With potatoes. And Nanny."
Pure awesome, right? It was definitely an extraordinary moment for me and it definitely added to my newest project. That, and also how something that you've read a hundred times before can suddenly reveal exactly what you need to see at exactly the right moment. Here's part of my reading from this afternoon:
'We played wedding songs,
and you didn't dance,
so we played funeral songs,
and you didn't weep.'
Passage taken from Luke 7:31-35 (NLT Second Edition)
What I realized today is that the people just didn't get it. No matter how it was presented to them, they just didn't get it. And I'm like that. Hurrying around, getting things done, and all the while God's saying the same thing over and over again in a hundred different ways, waiting for me to get it, you know?
What does that have to do with "Transforming Tuesday"? I think the whole point is this: To make each day extraordinary, I need to take the time to really hear and see, concentrating on the miracles that so often surface within the "ordinary."
Will you join me in transforming Tuesday into something extraordinary?
Here's a button I made for this project. Be sure to grab it and link up so I can check out your photo or video or poetry or thoughts or...whatever you choose to document your extraordinary Tuesday with!! :)
You guys are all awesome,
