Getting excited about being "normal"

Lately I have been thinking alot about keeping up endurance when the adrenaline has run out - maintaining supernatural faith in day to day natural, "normal" life. Because for me faith comes more easily when I am holding my daughter's hand as she is covered in tubes and wires in the hospital, when a doctor takes a long pause and lets out a deep sigh before giving me some news about her condition - for some reason that is when my faith comes as natural as breathing. Equally as easy times for my faith are when Riley's physical therapist gets chills because of something absolutely amazing that Riley has accomplished or when we celebrate her birthday or other milestone we were told we would never get to. I don't know why my faith comes easy when it is the only thing to hold me up when my world is falling apart or when I am in some sort of emotional state that is beyond joy and thankfulness because of some major break through for Riley. Those are the times my faith feels as big as a school bus but it is the normal every day times when I feel like I struggle to keep my faith even mustard seed sized. It is not that my faith is not there, it is just that is doesn't come as easily. I guess I could compare it to when I used to run long distance races for track in high school. Of the 3 miles in each race it is the 2nd mile that is the hardest. The first mile you have your adrenaline to push you and in the third mile you have the promise of the finish line in sight but the second mile that is when you are at just some random place in the course and you have to work to keep a good pace to not wear yourself out but at the same time to not fall behind. That is where I feel like I am now. Oddly enough it is not the mountains or the valleys that are hard but the flat even ground in between. Working to remember that even on a day when I get excited just to match up all the socks as I fold the laundry - even on a day that mundane - God is still there wanting to knock my socks off. So I guess this all of this is to say that I am taking time to revel and rejoice in the mundane - enjoying the fact that Riley is not in the hospital and looking forward to the next miracle - just excited to be on flat ground. I am thankful that I can find a day filled with respiratory treatments, ventilators, feeding pumps, and countless other medical necessities "normal". I am thankful that tracheotomy tube changes have blended in right behind washing the dishes on my list of things to do for the day. I am making the effort to not put my faith that can move mountains on the back burner just because I am scrubbing last nights chili off one of the front burners. And amazingly enough I am finding that God can use the mundane to do some pretty profound things in my faith. For instance, just the fact that I can find a day like today somewhat normal as I sit up with my daughter at 3:00 in the morning (we don't have a nurse tonight) and for some odd reason I am writing part of my personal prayer journal in a blog on the internet for other people to see - it is almost comical that because of the highs and lows of the past year this abnormal behavior is now normal to me. . . I wonder what we will find normal next year? So even though I have no idea how normal (or crazy) tomorrow is going to be I know that God is going to do amazing things and we are so thankful to living this incredibly abnormal/normal life with all of you. Thanks for all the prayers, hugs, text messages, support, etc. We love you!