A Minute with Drexel: Making an ordinary day exceptional

PENSACOLA, Fla. ( WKRG ) — Coming to you today from one of my favorite Gulf Coast parks, where I like to come to think, people watch, “water-watch” and just enjoy what I guess a lot of people would call some “ordinary” time.

I’ve been thinking about that word “ordinary” lately. I’ve recently heard a number of people say things like: “I live such an boring, ordinary life.” “Dinner tonight was just “ordinary” Or, “There was nothing special about today… it was just ordinary.”

I spent a day with some of my family this week. We sat around and talked, read to the toddler, fed the baby, burped the baby, changed the baby… folded some clothes, fixed dinner… you get the idea. I guess some might call that an “ordinary” or as one dictionary definitions reads: “unexceptional” day.  I disagree.

I’ve come to believe that there is no such thing as an “ordinary” day, or meal, or life. Every day that we wake up, that we are able to eat, to see or talk to friends and family, to read, to laugh, to cry, to pray…is… extraordinary. Even in the midst of pain, lack and loss… and trust me, I’ve known all three… if we look hard enough we can probably find something in the day that turns it from ordinary… to exceptional. Let’s all be on the lookout. I wish for you a week filled with exceptional days, no matter how ordinary they may seem to others!

And that’s your Minute with Drexel.

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