"I’m a thirty-something with two kids living a more or less ordinary life. And what I’m slowly realizing is that, for me, being in the house all day with a baby and a two-year-old is a lot more scary and a lot harder than being in a war-torn African village. What I need courage for is the ordinary, the daily every-dayness of life. Caring for a homeless kid is a lot more thrilling to me than listening well to the people in my home. Giving away clothes and seeking out edgy Christian communities requires less of me than being kind to my husband on an average Wednesday morning or calling my mother back when I don’t feel like it."

- exerpt from Courage in the Ordinary, a blog post written by Tish Harrison Warren

If you're reading this blog you probably go to Christ Community Church and you most likely live in the suburbs of Cobb County. Your family is either middle or upper-middle class, is well educated, and lives a relatively comfortable life. As a believer in this culture it is easy to "fearfully cling to the status quo and the comfortable" because you're rarely challenged by the hardships most Christians in the rest of the world face on a daily basis. Your walk with God can easily become one more thing on your never ending to-do list.

On the other side of the coin, you could be one of those people who's so fed up with this boring, suburban Christianity that you've bought into this new "edgy, sizzling spirituality" that says if you're really going to get serious about your faith you must move back into the city, give away everything you own, and serve the poor. You find yourself saying, "now that's radical, missional Christianity!"

The blog below speaks to both of these struggles and ultimately encourages us all to faithfully follow Christ, wherever we are. The author reminds us all that "the kind of 'giving my life away' that counts starts with how I get up on a gray Tuesday morning. It never sells books. It won’t be remembered. But it’s what makes a life."

How will you live your life today? Will you faithfully follow wherever the Holy Spirit leads?

http://thewell.intervarsity.org/blog/courage-ordinary