This is part of a series of meditations, each with their own theme. This meditation explores the tension between our experience and understanding of the ordinary and the extraordinary in daily living. Can the tension ever be creative? Do we have to view ourselves as either one or the other? It is often said that ordinary people do extraordinary things. How then shall we value the ordinary as the vehicle for the extraordinary, if that is what it is. Or is it a reduction, some kind of dumbing down? The author, Rev Canon Robin Morrison has been a hospital, university and industrial chaplain, as well as working in parishes from Hackney to Southampton. He is now retired from his last job as the Bishops' Adviser for Church and Society in the Church in Wales. He is a University and school governor and on the board of Artes Mundi. Meanwhile, he writes novels and poetry.