attending with love to the everyday

Here's a Hauerwas quote that I've been thinking about today... on one of those ordinary days.

"...there is no substitute for learning to be a Christian by being in the presence of significant lives made significant by being Christian....
Significance suggests importance... lives that make a difference and that demand acknowledgement. But the lives of significance I began to notice were not significant in any of those ways. Rather, they were lives of quiet serenity, capable of attending with love to the everyday without the need to be recognised as 'making a difference'."

- Stanley Hauerwas
Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir p95