September 17, 2008

Kenilworth Ivy

This smiling little flower

can go un-noticed…

it is so small.

“Discipleship is built entirely

on the supernatural grace of God.

[It requires] the supernatural grace of God

to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint,

going through drudgery,

and living an ordinary, unnoticed,

and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.

It is ingrained in us that we

have to do exceptional things for God—

but we do not.

We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life,

and holy on the ordinary streets,

among ordinary people—

and this is not learned in five minutes.”

- Oswald Chambers

(My Utmost for His Highest)