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A writer has said that one of the purposes of a novelist is to make ordinary life seem legitimate. While most people we know lead ordinary lives, many of them feel that ordinary living is lacking, that it is not sufficiently special, that it is not quite a legitimate way of spending one's three score and 10 years. For them real life is "out there" somewhere where the party is, and their only hope is to find themselves transported to the party. Others seem to think that their ordinary lives are not sufficiently normal. Their agenda is to get "back to" or "around to" living a normal life. To play on Abraham Lincoln's quip about God loving common people because he made so many of them, one might condude that God loves ordinary life. He certainly made a lot of it.
But ordinary time, like relationships, can be extraordinary. It is true that ordinary boys and girls become extraordinary when seen through the eyes of love. Ordinary babies are no longer a part of a statistical record if they are our children or grandchildren. Ordinary events change into unusual events if we are involved.
--Kirby
But ordinary time, like relationships, can be extraordinary. It is true that ordinary boys and girls become extraordinary when seen through the eyes of love. Ordinary babies are no longer a part of a statistical record if they are our children or grandchildren. Ordinary events change into unusual events if we are involved.
--Kirby
