Monday Prayer: The Gift of Ordinary Days

Lord, you are present in the magnificent and the mundane alike. You inhabit Sunday mornings and Tuesday afternoons with equal glory. In the rhythm of ordinary hours, you're writing a beautiful story I often forget to notice.

I spent today wishing for something more exciting, more significant, more worthy of your attention. I let routine make me restless, treated blessing like burden. I've been so busy looking for your presence in the dramatic that I missed you in the daily. Thank you for the gift of ordinary days - for health that doesn't demand attention, for relationships steady enough to take for granted. Thank you for ordinary being its own kind of miracle.

Help me see the sacred in the simple tomorrow. Open my eyes to the ways you show up in grocery stores and traffic jams and folded laundry. Let me find contentment in the life you've actually given me, not the one I think I should want. Tonight, I'm grateful for this beautiful, ordinary life. Every mundane moment is held by your extraordinary love.