Finding Love and Humor in the Ordinary

Perhaps it's been the really nice weather but I have been WAY more joyful. I'm finding life to be more enjoyable and finding it a lot easier to be positive about tough stuff in life.

Perhaps it's the season of Easter. This has been the first time I've been immersed in the truth of the Easter season. There is so much I have learned this Spring. For example, I didn't know Easter was extended after Easter Sunday. I wasn't aware of how much celebration could be had in the days after. I wasn't aware that Jesus kept showing up for 40 days after he was resurrected. I wasn't aware how he met people in the ordinariness of life at that time. At first those he met up with didn't recognize him yet once he called them by name they were filled with excitement and burning in their hearts.

I feel Jesus calling me by name. I feel him calling me into his resurrection, calling me into new life. I feel a spring in my step because I'm starting, just a itsy-bitsy bit, to see the confidence God has in me as his tool. This has helped me challenge myself. I've run a 5k, started Weight Watchers and have become a cell leader. I know Jesus is calling me to be more full and more fully known. So what if it rains sometimes, so what if I have to have tough conversations, so what if I'm not fully confident, so what if I mess up, Jesus still is showing up in the day to day and encouraging me to renewal. He is reminding me how to love and how I am loved. He is reminding me that in the season of renewal to rely on the medicine of laughter. We can laugh at ourselves. We can laugh at life. We can take joy in the ordinary.

Luke 24:13-25