I don’t have a story marked by tragic loss, severe illness, or poverty.

I’m surrounded by people who do—those with awe-inspiring testimonies of redemption, suffering, and triumph. Their stories stir us and point to the goodness of God in the midst of pain. I’m thankful for how they minister to our fears, shame, and sorrow.

But what about the stories that feel… ordinary?


Does Ordinary Have a Place?

Sometimes, the quiet stories get overlooked. It’s easy to believe that if our story doesn’t carry the weight of drama or deep loss, it doesn’t matter. That it doesn’t belong in the practice of lament or the celebration of redemption.

That we’re just ordinary—and what good could that be?


My Story Is Ordinary

I spent years believing my story didn’t have a voice. But it was in the midst of my ordinary that I came to know loss—the kind of loss that happens when communion with God is broken.

I grieved the fall of my own Eden, where shame and fear crept in. I didn’t have language for it then, but I felt the ache of absence. So I reached for anything and anyone to fill the void.


I know loss. And so do you.

In the eyes of creation, we’ve all experienced a great loss. And our stories—all of them—bear witness to it.


And Yet, My Ordinary Tells of Rescue

Jesus found me not in crisis, but in the mundane. Not in a dramatic conversion, but in a quiet moment where He simply said, “Follow Me.”

I wasn’t dying. I wasn’t at rock bottom. I was just living. But my heart ached. And He came anyway.

Just like He did with the disciples—fishermen, tax collectors, everyday people. He stepped into their ordinary and changed everything.


Ordinary Is Not a Disqualification

Ordinary is powerful. Because it’s in the ordinary that grace and free will collide.

And it takes scandalous courage to befriend Jesus in the everyday. In the laundry piles. In the slow mornings. In the ache of longing. In the choosing to believe when nothing feels dramatic.


So Here’s My Reminder to You:

Don’t let your ordinary be drowned out by the exceptional.

Jesus walked with the ordinary every single day. Your story has a place. It deserves to be heard. You are not disqualified simply because you are ordinary.


Because our ordinary tells of His extraordinary.