When is there a time to not live extraordinary?
It was in the movie Dead Poets Society that John Keating, an inspirational professor (played by
Robin Williams) said to his class of young “hungry for life” boys:
[talking about people in old awards ceremony photographs] They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. [the students lean in] Listen, you hear it? [whispers in a raspy voice] Carpe – hear it? – Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
I can remember many times I was in a similar scene. The kind of scene you “cheers” to the spirit of inspiration. I have sat through hundreds of half time speeches where the coaches truly rattle your spirit to play with EVERYTHING you‘ve got “All we need is twenty minutes.” Or the time when I heard my Dad speak at my uncles funeral and displayed one of the most 
inspirational eulogies. I do have to admit, I cried once after a NIKE commercial. It was that song “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” There’s even been times where I have heard someone’s LIFE story and just felt that tug to AWAKEN that part in me that screams and imagines “EXTRAORDINARY” words and dreams.
Whether it be some song, movie, memory, speech, book or even pictures…there is something that can trigger a longing to LIVE extraordinary. It doesn’t go away. The scary thing is that is can be suppressed. But that doesn’t mean it goes away. IT is time to rediscover. Open that room in our hearts. Clean up and dust some things off if needed and discover what it is that makes us individually extraordinary.
Because where ever we are, there is someone who is waiting for us to show up living full. Someone needs us full. Right where we are. No need to go somewhere far to see that people need extraordinary living in extraordinary creations. No need to go anywhere to see people not living fully ALIVE. It can be the person you sit next to at work or even ourselves. I say it is time that we LIVE EXTRAORDINARY. We may not know how. All we have to do is ask the SPIRIT within us. He is QUITE EXTRAORDINARY and is there very thing that revived us when we living just ordinary. This time is now, Carpe Diem. We need each other to live full. God desires that we live Full of Him. At the very least, extraordinary. “An ordinary day lived extraordinary has enternal purpose,” Charles Stock (pastor at Life Center Church Harrisburg, PA-one of our guest teachers).
