Comments on: The Grace of a Normal Day

By: Janmary, N Ireland

Janmary, N Ireland — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:57:27 +0000

So eloquently put.

Thanks for sharing – your post means a lot to me.

By: Joanne Norton

Joanne Norton — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:49:05 +0000

Good way of expressing life. [I'm a very much anti-alarm clock person... that shocking awakening noise just keeps my heart hammering for too long!]. And it’s true that, in our present world, we have a hard time simply looking at the “everydayness’” we are probably facing as unimportant or unnecessary. We don’t know who is seeing the grace of God operating in our lives and encouraging them to go forward…

By: patty

patty — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:55:02 +0000

i have a friend who said that he complained all the time that his life was so blah, so normal. and today, he says, he would give anything to have that boring normal back. i guess it’s all perspective. i love ’swimming in chance’ – what an excellent visual. and i’m glad you gave up gray.

By: Bonnie | FaithBarista

Bonnie | FaithBarista — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:35:49 +0000

“I always thought hell would be colored with a fiery red. Turned out it was a dull gray instead.”

Going numb colors the gray.

It’s special to learn it was just 3 years ago that since then, the colors have returned for you.

Beautiful read, Billy. Thanks for sharing.

I just got back in my blogging saddle last week… since the film .

By: Michelle @ Graceful

Michelle @ Graceful — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:43:06 +0000

Billy,
I think this is my favorite posts of yours so far — I can’t believe I missed it earlier this week. I’m so glad Emily posted it on Chatting today, and that it caught my eye. All I can say is Yes. Yes. I hear you. I know exactly what you mean. Both the earlier feeling of dull grey (I once called it grey lapping grey) and the later realization of grace, beauty found in the everyday normal, the extraordinary in the ordinary. That’s not to say I don’t sometimes still wake up with the grey draping my heart like fog — I do — but I think with God’s grace I am seeing more and more color in my everyday.

Thank you — this is a keeper! I am printing it out and hanging it in my office!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:43:50 +0000

I am glad to have met you, and your blog. Thank you for writing.

By: Sandra Heska King

Sandra Heska King — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:24:31 +0000

Oh, to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. A normal day full of adventure!

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:21:53 +0000

Love this — I always thought hell would be colored with a fiery red. Turned out it was a dull gray instead.

Working at a homeless shelter — in a gray on gray world — that is hell.

Grace is that moment when people awaken to a new day at the point of possibility, not the prospect of failure.

thanks for this post — quite powerful

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:39:43 +0000

God, grant me the grace of a normal day.

AMEN!

Amazing post, Billy. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:24:58 +0000

Billy,

Love the honesty that comes across in your posts. That not all days are happy go lucky no matter how much we would like them to be and the fact is the life is like that sometimes. I’ve been trying prayer and study first thing and it’s amazing how different my days have been.

Love and Hugs ~ Kat