Extraordinary, really

Standing with my feet at the edge of the pool yesterday, another mom and I got chatting yesterday. We were both making the last, “it’s time to go”, calls. Then my daughter asked for one more jump, for the both of us, and I said with a smile, “Welllll…alright.”

I turned to the mom next me and said, “I mean, it is summer, after all, and we don’t reaaaaallly have to go.”
She laughed. “I know. I mean I just have to go make dinner when we get home.”
“I know, same!” I comiserated. “I just need to remember. Sometimes I speed up, so I can slow down. But sometimes, I should just slow down.”

This morning I was thinking about that again. In my slow time. My quiet time.
That would soon by interrupted by tiny feet. Remembering that wherever my feet are, is important. Right here, alone. Soon, interrupted.
Remembering to slow down.
Remembering my feet, dangling over the edge of the the pool yesterday. Knowing where they are now. Trying to remember that wherever they are is important.

Remembering what courting the extraordinary is all about anyway. The idea that dropped into my heart years ago.
That wherever my feet are, there is beauty. Purpose. Promise. Love.
I only have to look around. To slow down and see it…

And you know what I have found?
In case you hadn’t noticed. Not only the love of family and life and all that is good right here. But the love of a savior, that keeps showing up, and taking me deeper. Him who is right beside me. Always has been. Always will be.
What is extraordinary anyway? Extraordinary is Him.
Extraordinary isn’t something I make or do or become. Extraordinary isn’t something I can achieve.
Extraordinary is something. Like Love, that pulls you in, that’s waiting to be discovered.
Pure heavenly love, that sets you free, and doesn’t hold you down, or hold you back.
It’s not an earthly imposter that looks like more like ‘accepting’ or ‘holding on.’
Pure love sets you free, it won’t let you down, and it won’t let you fall. Not really. Not the way you might fear. (You’ll get back up.)

Extraordinary is Christ. Christ with me, Christ in me.
Extraordinary is here. Extraordinary is now. Already.
In this life. You can go ahead and jump…
Extraordinary is you and me, set free….