Using the Ordinary During Ordinary Time

by Karla Kincannon 

Much of our life is spent in ordinary ways: walking the family dog, getting children to school, attending meetings, observing deadlines, feeding families, and attending to daily routines. Commonplace activities that compose the raw material of our days alternatively provide the comfort of stability as well as the boredom of overfamiliarity. This precisely is the challenge the church faces during the season of the Christian year known as Ordinary Time.