Have We Lost the Unordinary in Life?

Have we lost the unordinary in life?

What turned? What became so important that the ordinary now stands so firm, while the unordinary seems to have no place to fit?

A life lived only in the ordinary can become dull. It can lack meaning, wonder, and mystery. The ordinary gives us structure, routine, and comfort—but the unordinary gives us something else. It gives us a pause. It gives us a question. It gives us a moment that cannot be easily explained, and because it cannot be explained, it continues to live inside us.

The unordinary stays intriguing.

Have we lost sight of those moments when there is no clear explanation, yet something beyond the usual adds wonder to the everyday? Could it be that, in those moments, God can be found—not always in what we can define, but in what we can sense, feel, and recognize beyond reason?

We see this throughout history. There have always been moments, people, and experiences that could not be fully explained. And often, when the majority did not understand them, fear stepped in. Instead of wonder, there was suspicion. Instead of curiosity, there was punishment. History records many times when what was different, mysterious, spiritual, or unexplainable was pushed away from existence simply because people did not know how to hold it.

Yet the Bible is filled with the unordinary.

Visions. Dreams. Burning bushes. Angels appearing. Seas parting. Voices from heaven. Healings. Prophecies. Miracles. Encounters that could not be explained by ordinary sight alone.

And this is where faith plays its major role.

Faith asks us to believe that not everything meaningful can be measured. Not everything sacred can be proven in the way the world demands proof. Some things must be received, witnessed, and carried with reverence.

So maybe this is why many have settled into a comfortable ordinary. Maybe ordinary feels safer. Maybe it allows everyone to look in one direction, follow the same rules, and avoid the discomfort of seeing too deeply. Because to see beyond the ordinary requires openness. It requires humility. It requires the willingness to admit that life may be larger than what we can explain.

But there is a price paid for losing the ability to see beyond.

When we reject the unordinary, we may also reject wonder. We may reject mystery. We may reject the possibility that God is moving behind the veil of what we do not yet understand.

Maybe humans have found comfort in ordinary simply because seeing the unordinary in one another is something we don't easily know how to get used to.

And maybe that is not a bad thing, even if it causes moments of what seems discomfort, or is it actually Interesting?

Maybe the unordinary within another person is not meant to disturb us, but to experience something beyond Ordinary.

The Ordinary may keep life steady.

But the Unordinary keeps life breathing.

It is the wonder that interrupts the dullness, the shimmer that appears where explanation ends, the place where God may lean close enough for us to feel that life was never meant to be only what we can understand, and maybe to allow the Unordianry Live as well.