Some folks can look at something extraordinary, and write it off as commonplace. Ring Lardner was an avid baseball fan, but every other sport to him was just a bore. One afternoon, when a friend took him to see a football game, Lardner watched the action on the field with total disinterest. Suddenly, in the second half of the game, the crowd came to its feet when a punt receiver ran the ball almost the entire length of the gridiron. "Did you see that?" the humorist's friend screamed. "He carried the ball ninety yards!" "So," Lardner shrugged, not at all impressed, "it isn't heavy." That is taking the spectacular and making it ordinary. But God, conversely, has a way of taking the ordinary, and making it spectacular and extraordinary.

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