The danger in espousing the holiness of the ordinary is that you may end up supposing you are approaching holiness when all you are is ordinary.
Christianity: a million ways to miss the mark – and counting!
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From Empty Hands
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America
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All Manner of Thing
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Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Oh, that’s very good. Is that a Lickonarism or did you read that somewhere?
All mine. I can say that without pride because it came out of an examination of my own life.
That is ordinarily brilliant. That could be the title of your next book.
A million ways to miss the mark.
A Million Little Ways to Miss the Mark.
Now you can just fabricate stuff at will.
How ’bout:
A million ways Matthew misses the mark, drinking luke-warm water from the john…
JOB
Did you ever consider that God is calling you to live a life or Ordinary holiness?
I think sometimes that people are so caught up in trying to live extraordinary lives that they don’t listen to God closely enough.
But then I aspire to be the Patron Saint of Mediocrity (St Angelmeg the not so bad, that’s me)