Ordinary or extraordinary?

Questions: How do we decide what is an ordinary event?
How do we decide what is an ordinary person?
What makes it extraordinary?

Randy and I watched the movie Miracle with Kurt Russell over the weekend. It made me think. This was a movie about the United States Mens Olympic hockey team. They did the unthinkable and beat the unbeatable Russian team and went on to win the gold. That really isn't where I saw the miracle. It was how the coach picked his team. He didn't go for the super-stars, the ones everyone expected would be picked. He picked each person for a purpose. He didn't pick the extraordinary, he picked the ordinary. What happened after they believed they were a family was a miracle.
There were 3 guys they called "The Cone Heads". They were kind of goofy and no one gave them much of a thought, but they brought their team to victory with goal after goal. The goalie was in a slump after his mother died. They didn't think he could make the big plays, but the coach believed in him and expected him to play to his potential. He gave him a chance.

All of this made me think of my life, how we look at other people. How many times do we over look the ordinary to cling to what we think is extraordinary? We could be extraordinary if we weren't always looking for the extraordinary in people, places or events. How many hurting people could be extraordinary if only they had someone to believe in their potential, someone to just stand by their side. How many of us are "The Cone Heads" that get dismissed, but put with the right team we can excel. Don't over look the ordinary in people or events because God WILL turn that ordinary into EXTRAORDINARY in the blink of an eye, if we would only believe it could happen!