SPECIAL PAPER

Today was a good day.  I had praise team practice this morning with a good friend of mine.  I am playing bass at Grace Evangelical Church tomorrow.  I really enjoy playing and haven’t really had opportunity to play since resigning from my former church.

While we were practicing, his wife and little girl got together with Heidi and the boys and went downtown to the Central Library.  So, when we finished up with our practice, we had some time on our hands.  For both of us, it felt like a lazy morning, so we decided that it would be best to simply sit around in his living room and talk.  It was a great time just relaxing and reclining while we talked about life.

When he called his wife to see when they were planning on coming home, they decided that our family would stay for lunch…but we (the men) had to throw something together for when they got home.  And let me tell you…we threw it all together.  We had such a hodgepodge of stuff it was incredible.  We had frozen pizza, spaghetti, salad, tater tots, dill pickle slices, sweet pickles, and olives.  Now I know that doesn’t sound all that appealing, but it all worked well together…and we fancied it up.  We had toothpicks for the olives and pickles and we put the paper napkins in fancy cloth napkin rings.

 And that got me thinking…we all are as ordinary as a paper napkin.  None of us are any more special than the next.  The 12 disciples were chosen, not because they were special ones with amazing gifts and talents…they were chosen as ordinary men.  The apostle Paul was an ordinary man.  What made them special was their relationship with the Lord Jesus.  They were just ordinary paper napkins…with a fancy napkin ring.

We all are ordinary…and yet so special to the Lord.  None of us are cloth napkins…we’re all ordinary paper.  But that doesn’t mean that we can’t become better.  Allow Him to come into your life and fancy you up.