JOURNAL 3-9-15=ORDINARY LOVE

JOURNAL=3-9-15=ORDINARY LOVE




“Naaman went away angry saying-'I thought that he would SURELY come out and stand there to invoke the Lord his God.....'-but his servants came up and REASONED with him


'My father,'-they said-'IF the prophets have told you to do something EXTRAORDINARY-would you not have done it? ALL the more now.....” 2 KINGS 5:11,13


WE are ALWAYS looking for God in the extraordinary-but it is TRUE that God is often found in the ordinary MOMENTS of LIFE and of LOVE-like Naaman in the above scenario-he CAN'T BELIEVE that the CURE to his leprosy is FOUND in something as simple as WASHING in the river Jordan


It is like us in today's world-ALWAYS LOOKING for the KEYS to life-the keys to life ARE EXACTLY what Jesus was and IS STILL TRYING to teach us:


LOVING GOD with our whole heart-mind-and soul
LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR as OURSELF
FORGIVING 70 x 7
and LIVING the BEATITUDES


THAT'S IT-that is the KEY to life-but we become too busy looking for a BIG SIGN or SPECIAL PROCESS-that we FORGET that GOD is in the ordinary events of our life


Let us live with INTENTIONALITY-leave our heart OPEN to God-and let GOD'S GRACE and healing-HELP TURN US back to God


it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE for us and a great to love GOD BACK and really and TRULY love our neighbor








“Ordinary Love”   (No. 2)


Ordinary love
Trying to reach out every day
Ordinary love
Trying to find a way

Ordinary love
Trying to touch someone’s heart
Ordinary love
Trying to give someone a start

Holding a door
For a stranger
Writing someone a card
Ordinary love
Trying to
Give someone’s heart
A brand new start

It’s the things
We do out of kindness
It’s the things
We do out of our heart
It’s the things we do
Expecting nothing in return
These things
Can give someone else
A brand new start

Ordinary love
Trying to reach out every day
Ordinary love
Trying to find a way

Ordinary love
Trying to touch someone’s heart
Ordinary love
Trying to give someone a new start

Ordinary love--show us the way


5/23/06        Robert  P.  Wallman


3-9-15