A Gift in the Ordinary

It is once again time to link up

with Lisa Jo Baker's Five Minute Friday blog post.

She posts a topic word and only one word. 

You are

to write for 5 minutes without stopping or editing 

 and then post. 

This is good for me because it is helping me

to get out of my  "what do I write for a blog-post" stuck place

that I've been in lately.

Today

 the one word is

Ordinary

an art journal page I created a few yrs. ago while reading "So Long Insecurity"

by Beth Moore....see my original post with more about the book here.

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So what is ordinary anyway?

That is a difficult question, because most people

see themselves as ordinary when they are really so much more. 

It is just such a joy for me to find something

or someone that others think, or they themselves think are

ordinary and prove them wrong!

I love bringing out, through my own view the 

beautiful and unseen things that others may miss. So often

its the most basic and simple things or person who

have those hidden extraordinary gifts 

that the world needs to see.

It brings me such pleasure when I can bring my 

extraordinary find out in the open and show the

world and also encourage someone

 who has no idea how special he or she really is.

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(my oh my how time flies)

I am so thankful for those people that I call, my ANGELS in life,

who have seen in me things that I didn't see and encouraged

me to embrace them, let them shine and to no longer hide them.

How about you?  Do you have some angels in your life who 

encourage you to bring out the extraordinary that has

been inside of you all along?

Well, if you don't, and of course I'm no angel, but let 

me be the first one to tell you  how very special

you are. 

 YOU ARE NOT ORDINARY.

YOU ARE

 EXTRAORDINARY!!!

I used to think I had to do something enormously
great to be called extraordinary. But the truth is, we were
created extraordinary from the beginning.
Striving to be extraordinary isn't the key.
We must base our sense of value on what God, our
creator says about us.

Eph 2:10
"You are God's masterpiece."

"Do you realize a masterpiece is not mass-produced?
You didn't come off an assembly line.  You're not average.
You're not ordinary.  You've been custom-made.
YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND.
God created you in His very own image. He looks past all
those other things and He looks right at you and says,
"There's my masterpiece.  That's my son.  That's my daughter.
That's what brings the most joy to my heart."

~Joel Osteen 


Doesn't that just make you feel wonderful?

I hope so!
Keep feeling that way and believe it
 always to be true!
Now go be beautiful Y♥U.

HUGS,