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We, the Ordinary People

God calls some people and sets them apart. But there are people he leaves in the crowd, those that he does not “withdraw from the world.”

These are people who do ordinary work, who have an ordinary family, or who are ordinary single people. These are people with ordinary sicknesses and ordinary sorrows. They live in ordinary houses and wear ordinary clothes. They are people with ordinary lives—people that we meet on any street….

As people on ordinary streets, we believe with our whole hearts that the street, the world that God has placed us in, is the place of our holiness.

It doesn’t matter what work we do, whether we are holding a broom or a pen, speaking or being silent, repairing things or giving a lecture, taking care of a sick person, or typing on a computer.

All of that is only the shell of a splendid reality—the encounter of the soul with God, renewed each moment, growing in grace each minute, always becoming lovelier for God.

Is the doorbell ringing? Quick, let’s open the door. God is coming to love us. Need information? Here it is…. God is coming to love us. Is it time to eat? Let’s sit down to eat because God is coming to love us.

Let’s let him do it.

Madeleine Delbrêl

We, the Ordinary People of the Streets (Nous autres, gens des rues [1971])