“Choosing to enter into the mundane
with our children, who see playing ponies as anything but ordinary, is a
sacrifice of love.”
- Desperate by
Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson
“Mommy, tell me the story about
…” My son loves to ask me to make up stories. It is fun to be in the
imaginative process with him yet I wear out so fast. I cannot keep up with his
little mind and get weary. I cringe at the word “mundane” in the quote above
because it is so superficial. How can we call anything mundane that someone
takes great joy and fun in?
Who am I to judge what is exciting and what is
mundane? For me it’s the repetition that gets wearing and there does not have
to be much!
As I consider this very small sacrifice I think about God, who came to earth as a man, Jesus. If anyone made the choice to move from incredibly exciting, fulfilling, joyful to mundane it was God! He came into our world, now that is an act of sacrificial love!!
This move of love was beautiful and sacrificial – to meet us where we are at, to choose to take on flesh and become like us. In the Incarnation, God chose to sit down on the carpet and play ponies and legos with His children that He loves so dearly.
How will you respond to the “mundane” today?
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
As I consider this very small sacrifice I think about God, who came to earth as a man, Jesus. If anyone made the choice to move from incredibly exciting, fulfilling, joyful to mundane it was God! He came into our world, now that is an act of sacrificial love!!
This move of love was beautiful and sacrificial – to meet us where we are at, to choose to take on flesh and become like us. In the Incarnation, God chose to sit down on the carpet and play ponies and legos with His children that He loves so dearly.
How will you respond to the “mundane” today?
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