BELOW IS THE LEADING ARTICLE I WROTE FOR "REJOICE" THE CIRCUIT NEWS LETTER!

It has been nine months since Lynese and I arrived in the circuit. During that time we have experienced a lot of love and care for which we thank you all.
Easter and Pentecost are over and we are now in what the lectionary calls the “Ordinary Season”. It has always struck me as being a bit of a misnomer as I have found over the years that nothing in the church or Christianity is ever ‘ordinary’. If I think of my walk with God and my experiences as a minister and a Christian they might have seemed ‘ordinary’ but on closer examination even the mundane has shown itself to be ‘extra-ordinary’.
I find it ‘extra-ordinary’ that my life has been so full of caring people, so full of loving family, so varied in all that I have been involved in and most of all so ‘extra-ordinary’ that I personally matter to God who made ‘everything both seen and unseen’.
I can only describe as ‘extra-ordinary’ the fact that people have been blessed by my listening to their stories when I know that listening is not one of my great natural skills. I find it ‘extra-ordinary’ that Lynese and I are living in another part of the world and that I have this incredible opportunity to be a minister among people all of whom were strangers and totally unknown to me just 15 months ago and now at times it feels as though I have known some of you my whole life.
What I am trying to say is that there is no ‘ordinary’ in Christianity. I can understand why the planners of the lectionary chose to call this season in our Christian year by that name, but please let us never think that ‘ordinary’ applies to any of us who know Jesus to be our Saviour or for that matter to anybody, as we are all ‘extra-ordinary’ because God made us to be just that!
As the summer grows ever brighter may we enjoy the brightness of God’s amazing love.
SHALOM!
Douglas Morris