I was sitting in the room with my son, Michael, recently as he was watching the movie The Incredibles. He likes to listen to a line over and over (part of his autism) and the line he kept playing that day got my attention.

Mr. Incredible drives into his driveway and a little neighborhood kid sits there staring at him. Mr. Incredible, who was not in a good mood, says,

"Well, what are you waiting for?"

The kids says, "I don't know, something amazing I guess".

Mr. Incredible hangs his head and says under his breath, "Me too, Kid".

I think many of us, like Mr. Incredible, can become disillusioned by life. We're waiting for something amazing to happen. Life doesn't look like we imagined it would. We are sure we were meant for more than this!

What we don't realize is that God works right in the midst of the ordinary. We watch for "amazing" and we miss magical moments. We expect God to do huge things in us and through us, and we miss the everyday ways that He blesses and uses us. We can miss opportunities to love and to be Christ to the world because they weave in and out of our everyday experiences.

Jesus walked among normal people. He seemed to do extraordinary things on normal days. He taught life-changing lessons on normal walks from place to place. He poured into and left His message in the hands of ordinary people.

He was amazing. He was amazing on normal days with normal people.

Maybe we don't have to be "incredible" to be "amazing"!

-Angela