{"id":1770,"date":"2014-06-25T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2014-06-25T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:25:23","slug":"is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-ordinary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2014\/06\/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-ordinary-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Is There Such A Thing as an Ordinary Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found myself looking about the tasks of my day and I casually assessed, “Well, this is just an ordinary day.”<\/p>\n

I immediately countered that observation.\u00a0 June 25, 2014.\u00a0 Unrepeatable.\u00a0 Never to be seen again. These seconds,as they sweep past, will never whooosh in precisely the same configuration.\u00a0 Units of measure that we have\u00a0 named time, unfold, without tending, all over the world. Billions of people at this precise moment are making choices and dispensing decisions that will have unalterable impact on the planet.\u00a0 And some of those seemingly\u00a0 unrelated choices will create, ultimately, an intersection of consequence half a world away.<\/p>\n

That’s not to be classified as ordinary.\u00a0 Anything but.\u00a0 I answer my own question, “No. That we are alive in it makes the day extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

Have an extraordinary day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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