Holiness in the ordinary..!

Is is so easy to be filled with thoughts of holiness while reading the scriptures, hearing a good preacher or reminiscing on God while alone. We ponder on such soul lifting ideals and feel elated with a sense of the divine. And then suddenly such thoughts are interrupted by someone physically appearing in our company, by a telephone call telling us we need to get to work or maybe our spouse or children reminding us the present needs our attention!
We are dragged from the sublime to the ordinary!
From the lofty to the mundane!
How wonderful, we think, it would be to remain in those holy moments, separated, isolated from the world below.
But that is not how it is meant to be. I read about men and women retreating into such worlds in hills and mountains where in loneliness they continue communing with god and nature. How useful such lives are, I don't know, nor will we ever know. What we need to understand is that the holy we have just mediated upon needs to be lived through our lives in the ordinary of the normal, boring world full of challenges, unpleasantnesses and sadness sometimes, and armed with the contentment we have just contemplated upon, we change the ordinary into an extraordinary time!
We do not run away, but change the present, transform those around and make holy the time we live in the ordinary!
The peace and quietness of the mountaintop experience should remain in our minds and influence the tumultuous situations in the valley below!
Those glimpses of heaven should transform your earth and mine! Then and only then does the ordinary become as holy as the experience we underwent and transformation takes place in every situation we go through and in all the people we deal with. Then and only then does that handful of holiness we are sheltering in our cupped palms grow into a mighty revolutionizing inferno of peacefulness!
Share your experience of holiness with the ordinary around..!

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Holiness in the ordinary..!

Is is so easy to be filled with thoughts of holiness while reading the scriptures, hearing a good preacher or reminiscing on God while alone. We ponder on such soul lifting ideals and feel elated with a sense of the divine. And then suddenly such thoughts are interrupted by someone physically appearing in our company, by a telephone call telling us we need to get to work or maybe our spouse or children reminding us the present needs our attention! We are dragged from the sublime to the ordinary! From the lofty to the mundane! How wonderful, we think, it would be to remain in those holy moments, separated, isolated from the world below. But that is not how it is meant to be. I read about men and women retreating into such worlds in hills and mountains where in loneliness they continue communing with god and nature. How useful such lives are, I dont know, nor will we ever know. What we need to understand is that the holy we have just mediated upon needs to be lived through our lives in the ordinary of the normal, boring world full of challenges, unpleasantnesses and sadness sometimes, and armed with the contentment we have just contemplated upon, we change the ordinary into an extraordinary time! We do not run away, but change the present, transform those around and make holy the time we live in the ordinary! The peace and quietness of the mountaintop experience should remain in our minds and influence the tumultuous situations in the valley below! Those glimpses of heaven should transform your earth and mine! Then and only then does the ordinary become as holy as the experience we underwent and transformation takes place in every situation we go through and in all the people we deal with. Then and only then does that handful of holiness we are sheltering in our cupped palms grow into a mighty revolutionizing inferno of peacefulness! Share your experience of holiness with the ordinary around..! [email protected]