I'm a fan of dictionary.com and have been since college. And in a small way I continue my education through its word-of-the-day. (p.s. if you know me and have never heard the word-of-the-day joke, make me tell it to you. it's a fav.) At any rate, dictionary.com tells me that the meaning of mundane is of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly or earthly. Synonyms also include secular or temporal.
Now, in my little pea brain, I always thought mundane to be that of something boring and lethargic, which is what my days are beginning to feel like within the past week. So with that in mind, I read this quote from a friend of a friend on a friend's blog (ya dig?):
So then in my head I started this dialogue with God that went a little something like this, "God, how exactly do you rule my mundane? My days are filled with nothingness and boredom. Why am I living in nothingness and boredom? How does that glorify you? How are you ruling that? Why is connecting with people so hard? Why haven't I heard back form any jobs? Why why blah blah blah, etc." Lots of questions.
If God doesn’t rule your mundane,then He doesn’t rule you,because that’s where you live.
Then I read what mundane really means. And it almost instantaneously flipped my perspective off of my measly self and back to a glorious God! My life is mundane!!! But no longer in the sense that I had perceived. My life was being lived in nothingness and boredom because I was allowed to attempt to plan for myself and decide what best filled Camie's day. But now knowing that mundane is the day to day TEMPORARY earthly life in light of Him, knowing that He wants to fill my day with divine events, knowing that He wants me, period; that is enough to excite me into an anticipatory state of being. I am not here forever, and He is worth my every second's devotion.
He is that glorious. He is that good.
Amen and amen! I had the same thoughts about my life while I was in my last job (at the store). I asked God why I was wasting my days at a job for which I was ill suited and that I did not like. His response? "Heather, not only did I give you each of these days as a gift (to do with what you will, but ultimately for my glory) but I also gave you that job (to do with what you will, but ultimately for my glory)."
ReplyDeletePerspective: flipped.
I still struggle with the desire to whine when things aren't going as my inner tyrant desires, but either God rules or I don't. He doesn't share his glory nor does he co-rule. Thank you for sharing your heart about the mundane.
P.S. Every time I use "abstruse" I think of you. You taught me that word!
this is GOOD! i can hear your voice as i read through your blog posts. thank you for sharing.. just what i needed :)
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