"Normal" Life

"There is no such thing as normal life Wyatt,
there's just life." Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp,
 from the flm "Tombstone"

Did Jesus live a "normal" life?
do any of us live a "normal" life?
we get up each day,
follow our routines,
coffee, read, breakfast,
etc..
we go to our job,
daydream,
we live within the confines we choose,
or maybe they choose us,
we are offered "Abundant" life.
and in this is the dangling carrot..
Jesus came so that we could have it,
and how did He show us this could be?
with a cross..
with loving to the point of sacrifice,
without sacrifice there is no love,
without suffering love is simply a romantic notion,
a fiction of Hollywood,
"Abundant" life is something other than the American Dream,
it is something deeply connected to love and to suffering..
this makes "normal" life abundant.

wkm
Nashville