(It always amazes me that there aren't more people reading Chesterton. Every time I read even a few pages, I come away with my mind buzzing with thoughts ... the below emerged after reading a few pages of his "Orthodoxy")
I want to be ordinary one of those people amazed by the oddities of life secure in their familiar I don't want to be extraordinary for then I'll become bored by the things that surprise I want to be ordinary fascinated by the discouvery of all that's long been known An explorer who finds new lands that have always been his home Pity the unimaginative the ones with reason alone for they have never known beauty in the simple surprises of home Pity the extraordinarily sane the rational ones who fail to comprehend what lies beyond the scene Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side ... of reason? To escape the pavement of unbelief where life is avoiding the cracks? To pass over and see from the other side? Oh, I want to be ordinary the way I was made to be ever surprised by infinity. Pity the super rational bound in a finite reality god of their universe of self. I want to be ordinary small and fragile in the mystery of life
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