Wed. 27 ORDINARY

A store full of ordinary things out in Yarrow where I would like to visit again one day.

No life is ordinary but it can be a challenge to love and accept some people.

I think that most of us feel very ordinary although we are all very unique in our individual ways.
The Bible says to look into the heart and forget outward behaviors and appearances.  David one of the most unlikely brothers was chosen to be king after Saul.

I was think if ordinary people, or even ordinary policeman  went to meet with the rabble who were rioting in Ferguson after a young man was violently shot to death.  What may have started out as peaceful soon became violent when officers looking more like soldiers charged into the crowd.  The situation became worse to the point where armoured vehicles were called into the scene

They could have walked among the crows and become one of them horrified at what had happened.  This was what Jesus did he walked among the crowds as one of them!

Reading about one of the worst disasters in U.S, history the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco' that killed an estimated three thousand people and annihilated the city centre, it has been written that the National Guard and militiamen used their power not to help but to destroy property and endanger lives.

Pauline Jackson, a journalist, wrote an article in the Bulletin newspaper about how it felt to be a refugee and have nothing in the world.  She observed the division of class at this time that separated those who had and those without.  The amazing thing that occurred was that strangers became friends and gladly lent a hand.  Underneath the tragedy there was a new note a quiet bubbling joy that one finds when all has been lost and a simple act of kindness restore faith in ordinary human beings.

 

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.     - Confucius

Happy Birthday Theresa a very unordinary gal!