A Not so Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary Day

As of today, I started living full-time in Colorado. It is kind of a funny situation right now. Most of my things will be in boxes for the next 6 weeks as I travel from Colorado back to Kansas City and then to Madison and the Twin Cities throughout the next month and a half. I will live in a house almost an entire month, without really calling it home. But all this is in a day's work for a modern day missionary.

Today was my first day working out of the office. Of course, this is moving week around the office and people things are in boxes all over the place and then the office seems kind of barren from people on mission trips, vacations, or taking classes. But I am still of awe of the fact that I am able to sit in an office and down the hall in the office building is our Lord Jesus in the tabernacle in our chapel and the fact that the President of FOCUS, Curtis Martin, just stops in to give me a hard time and have a five minute strategic conversation with my colleague and me. It was an amazing day full of energy and hope.

I wonder if things ever seem normal in an environment where life seems so extraordinary. I am sure they will, if I lose the eyes of faith. You see...through the eyes of faith every day, every moment is extraordinary. But this is the daily struggle we must enter into...How does an office of daily communicants live in extraordinary joy so that the entire office building might be set aflame with the love of Christ...what a beautiful thought, but this is not just a thought, it is my desire. It is Jesus' desire for the world, that at His name all knees shall bend!