Our Everyday Life and Depth Experiences The Everyday or Ordinary Unpacking the activity My everyday From the experiences it appears that the everyday includes the following o The joyful and the celebratory elements of your lives o The tiresome and the boring the exciting and typical o The difficult and troublesome your fears and anxieties and your hopes and dreams What is everyday and Depth Experience The everyday is the whole of doing thinking and feeling in our daily lives and recurring routine A depth experience refers to a happening or an incident in our daily life which calls our attention intellectually emotionally and morally because we sense that it has a significance a value or deeper meaning to us A depth experience makes you think about yourselves your life or the life of others and the world you live in In this kind of experience it is you who seek or discover that there is something more within the ordinary The depth experience invites you to look closely at an incident and raise questions about it and eventually raise questions about the meaning of our existence The Everyday and Depth Experiences of Jesus of Nazareth 1 Jesus was born in an ordinary way to ordinary parents at an ordinary place and ordinary time Jesus did not fall from the sky He came from among us with us among ordinary people born of a woman like your own fathers and mothers who experienced both excitement and fear in bearing a child Christian Tradition says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem The Gospels also say that Jesus spent most of his growing up years in Nazareth Jesus was born in a small ordinary place in an ordinary time of the day or night 2 Jesus had an ordinary life as a boy lived the everyday in its ordinariness and grew up with difficulties and dreams as well Jesus grew up with difficulties and dreams as well including his search for life s meaning and for God Jesus was also dependent for his formation on the influences around him He listened intently to his elders and asked a lot of questions and even argued at times Jesus was a remarkably perceptive and insightful person He also probably closely observed the events in his life surroundings the people whom he encountered and his society His observation and reflection led Him to discover the depth experiences in ordinary things persons and events that reveal the extra ordinary the different and new the sacred the divine 3 Jesus immersed himself in the lives of the ordinary people in ordinary places and made them feel the extra ordinary in their lives Jesus was not only a person with depth experiences but he also helped people realize that there is something more or important and valuable in their lives By calling them to follow him Jesus saw their God given gifts or potentials not their weaknesses nor frailties Jesus gave them importance by believing in them that they were also called to become better men and women who would do good things for other people By communicating with your deepest self or a higher being you uncover insights or learnings about life that lay hidden in the routine activities of your day You realize that you are more than what you think or know about yourselves Jesus immersed himself in the lives of people He had a mission from God but he did not keep this mission to a few and within his circle of friends He sought people especially the poor the sick the outcasts the abandoned and the underprivileged He healed and forgave them from their infirmities He preached or taught and often read He did this while eating and drinking with people He walked worked and rest with them EVENT Healing the paralytic who was brought by his friends Healing a man born blind Forgiving a woman accused of adultery Healing two blind men at Capernaum Healing Ten lepers Healing a blind person Healing a woman suffering from hemorrhage internal bleeding PLACE In a house with hole in the roof By the side of the road In a plaza or neighborhood basketball court On the street At the entrance of a village In an alley or small dirt road In a crowded place 4 In moments of silence and solitude Jesus saw his depth experience as an experience of intimate relationship with God In his moments of silence and solitude Jesus developed an intimate relationship with God who is actively present in his life and in the world Jesus prayed in public too like when he thanked God for the food they received as narrated in the story of the feeding of the multitude But whether it was in private or in public Jesus spent some time of his every day to get in touch with his inner self and to see it in another that way is from the eyes of God Silence is a way of relating your everyday to a bigger reason of your existence on earth