Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

by Tish Harrison Warren

Our moments of exaltation and our stifled yawns—somehow they go together, part of the whole life that we are meant to offer to God day by day, as well as Sunday by Sunday, the life that God has taken into his own life. It is the life that Christ himself assumed, and thus rescued and redeemed.

today is the proving ground of what I believe and of whom I worship.

mostly, I’d invite God into the day and just sit. Silent. Sort of listening. Sort of just sitting. But I sat expectantly. God made this day. He wrote it and named it and has a purpose in it. Today, he is the maker and giver of all good things.

These “formative practices” have no value outside of the gospel and God’s own initiative and power.

when we gaze at the richness of the gospel and the church and find them dull and uninteresting, it’s actually we who have been hollowed out. We have lost our capacity to see wonders where true wonders lie. We must be formed as people who are capable of appreciating goodness, truth, and beauty.

The work of repentance and faith is daily and repetitive. Again and again, we repent and believe.