Quote for Reflection (Sunday, August 20, 2023)

“We must not let the ordinary stay ordinary or simply sit around and wait for something ‘special’ to celebrate. In a similar way, most spirituality is not mainly about spiritual highs or lows’—dramatic or graphic reminders of God’s grace and action in our life or periods of mourning. The best spiritual guides all insist that spirituality is about being present to the real as it surrounds us in ordinary time and place. As John Ruskin once put it: ‘The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of ordinary daily life and elevating them into an art.’”

― John Coleman