Here is an e-mail I sent out this morning. I send the "My Utmost..." devotions with comments to my small group on a semi-regularly basis and it sparks some discussion sometimes...so I thought I would share it with y'all to try out this blog...
Good morning my friends. Well, this mornings "My Utmost..." devotional made me think about the place that many of us are in life. Josh is looking into law schools, but in the mean time working as a restaurant server; I am still (STILL) in school; Chris and Nicole are making a new niche in their new parish, with Nic waiting for job stuff to come together; Kyle and Wendy are waiting for a calling to come through; Sarah W. is starting a new chapter in life and looking for a job that seems to keep jumping one step ahead of her; etc.
And in the midst of this, the devo. below reminds us that, sort of as Mother Teresa was quoted as having said, "There are no great things, only little things done with great love." I think the heart of it is that their is greatness in the waiting, in the menial, in the refining and what seems mundane. It is a matter of perspective and being willing to be patient and be made like Christ who did the mundane, all the way down to washing feet!
There is a purpose, even though it sometimes seems unclear or downright absent, and we are/can be in this together, reminding each other that what we are going through, if we let it, can be used to make us more into the person we were created to be, thus giving glory to God and drawing us closer to the heart and min of God...
Okay, those were my thoughts....

"My Umost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers: June 15 Get Moving!
Also . . . add to your faith . . . —2 Peter 1:5
In the matter of drudgery. Peter said in this passage that we have become "partakers of the divine nature" and that we should now be "giving all diligence," concentrating on forming godly habits ( 2 Peter 1:4-5 ). We are to "add" to our lives all that character means. No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed. Nor are we born with habits— we have to form godly habits on the basis of the new life God has placed within us. We are not meant to be seen as God’s perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. Drudgery is the test of genuine character. The greatest hindrance in our spiritual life is that we will only look for big things to do. Yet, "Jesus . . . took a towel and . . . began to wash the disciples’ feet . . ." ( John 13:3-5 ).
We all have those times when there are no flashes of light and no apparent thrill to life, where we experience nothing but the daily routine with its common everyday tasks. The routine of life is actually God’s way of saving us between our times of great inspiration which come from Him. Don’t always expect God to give you His thrilling moments, but learn to live in those common times of the drudgery of life by the power of God.
It is difficult for us to do the "adding" that Peter mentioned here. We say we do not expect God to take us to heaven on flowery beds of ease, and yet we act as if we do! I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty’s sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ. "