"Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common" ~Acts 2:44~
Last night, as I went to our church league men's softball games, I was struck by how great it is to feel "normal". I hadn't really missed the feeling, I'd forgotten about it. Sometimes we go through so much in life, feeling "just ok", or surviving becomes the usual way we feel. Often we feel burdened with responsibility, maybe even when there is nothing wrong. Many times our minds are overloaded with all we have left to accomplish for the day, the checklist heavy with chores, homework, bills, problems we can't seem to release from our thoughts. Sometimes, we have been through things that make us loose our place in society, and the new common feeling for our life is "odd and out of place". We get so adjusted to it sometimes, we just forget what normal feels like...
Webster has many terms defining normal. Associated words: standard conditions, mainstream, temperance, equilibrium, stability, peace, health...my favorite definition: free of all spoilage or obvious defects.
Mainstream-not living life on the sidelines, but jumping right in the middle of the action. To sit and enjoy a meal or a ballgame with no rush, no distraction. Just living in that moment. Free of all spoilage or obvious defects...wow. Only Jesus can bring us to a place free from the spoilage of our past, and to a place where we are only seen for who we are, not the obvious defects life has hit us with-that is a place of equilibrium, stability, peace & health. A place where being with the body of Christ, the church sharing fellowship, believing together, having all things in common, once again finds your place of normal.
