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The God of the mundane
Nathan Maphet revels in a God who revels in the ordinary

We live in a world obsessed with excitement. Go for the gold! Suck the marrow out of life! Be all you can be! We go bungi jumping, sky-diving, rock-climbing, wilderness camping, kayaking, and so on. We seek to have the best, the newest, the most fashionable, the most feature-laden, and the most expensive.

Part of this seems to be a profound lack of respect for the mundane, boring, every-day aspects of life. The new anathema is growing old and flabby, settling in a boring, suburban house, and spending all of your time carting your kids from one event to another. One beholds an increasing number of people who decide not to get married at all. Why get bogged down with constant arguing and nitpicking with the idiot you're stuck with for the rest of your life when you could progress from one new and exciting relationship to the next, reaping the benefits of sexual enjoyment without that obnoxious commitment thing? ...