5 minute "friday" (oops, I guess Sunday) - ordinary

Every week, lots of lovely ladies (and I believe a few gents too) gather up to just write for 5 minutes with no edits or redos or anything that usually binds them up and they are write about the same topic along with Lisa Jo Baker in this whole 5 Minute Friday thing. I'm linking up and giving it a try - not sure if I'll do it every week or just sporadically, but I think it's good practice to just let loose and not overthink this whole writing thing! (And I'm actually setting a timer this week because I went way over last time!)

Start...

Ordinary

Ordinary - it's funny, I spent so much of my life struggling with ordinary - with pressure to achieve and perform and be anything but ORDINARY - I had to be better, to be perfect, to be extraordinary. Yet, in other ways, I would shrink and hide and worry - and wish that I could just be like everyone else. To be a part of things.

That's the rub, to be extraordinary - you have to stand out - to stand apart, consecrated, separated.... different, alone.

God gave me a drive to push for greatness, yet I have often found myself mired in fear - allowing the devil to convince me that there is safety in "ordinary" that there is security in being a part of the crowd.

God has not called me to be ordinary, He has called me to be His own, and to stand apart from this world for HIM.

Stop.

I feel like there was and is more, but that's not what this exercise is all about - so there it is - 5 minutes and 5 minutes alone.