Olympian Feats - II

On Wednesday I talked about what I have been watching with such awe at the Olympics. Every four years especially I just cannot believe what I am seeing. This year has been even more so. Perhaps because I am more aware of the limitations of the human body (especially as we age) and I have just finished my 60 mile bicycle trip, but it is more obvious to me in this Olympics.

Maybe it also has to do with Michael Phelps and his amazing performances. At moments like these we see the heights to which we can fly- soar- when we put our minds to it and we have some of "the right stuff" that can move into unheard of territories. So we shake our heads in awe.

These are truly, as I said on Wednesday, Olympian feats of the Olympic Spirit.

But so are yours and mine.

Getting up and going to work day in and day out, even when we don't feel like it is no different from Michael Phelps getting up at the crack of dawn knowing he had five miles of swimming ahead of him. Day in and day out we do our best and build things, help others, serve others. Olympian feats occur in every home, factory, workplace, school every day. I don't have size 14 feet and the ability to swim like a dolphin. Very few do. But each of us is who we are. That sounds so trite that sometimes we miss the amazing truth in it.

When Jesus called a bunch of every day people to become his followers he knew they were capable of Olympian feats. He told them so when he said they would do even greater works than he was doing. All it takes is discipline to get up and go do them in whatever ways each of us has been gifted and called.