I had the privilege of speaking at my eldest son’s wedding in the summer.

I was asked to speak about love, which of course is a wonderful theme for a wedding, and I was pleased to do so.

One thing I said was that building a relationship, a family and a home on love, is about loving long.

After all, good marriages are supposed to be like Andrex toilet rolls: soft, strong and very very long. Loving long is about loving not just for a long time but doing so again and again and again, on ordinary days.

We all appreciate the extraordinary days, when we find ourselves on the holiday of a lifetime, or have an unusually memorable experience, and those things are great. But in all honesty, most days are fairly ordinary.

We get up. We use the loo. We brush our teeth. We go to work. We have lunch. We come home. Even the most fulfilling jobs include things that are rather mundane.

And much of life is routine: making food. Again. Paying bills. Again. Answering emails. Again. Cleaning the house. Again. And this is especially the case if you have children or grandchildren, for they thrive on routine. It gives them security. All this means that much of life includes things that just need to be done.

So, I said in my wedding talk, we have a decision to make. We either get bored, or we do things with great love. I encouraged them to do the latter. To do ordinary things with extraordinary love in their hearts. That reflected the Bible reading we had, which described a love that’s patient and perseveres and never fails. This kind of love is practical and purposeful. It’s a love we see perfectly in Jesus Christ, which he invites us to experience and give away, in all our relationships. It’s love in the ordinary. Love in the routine. Love in the mundane.

Many of us have now returned to the mundane routines of September after a slower pace of life in August. Like my son and his wife, we all have a choice of how we’re going to live. What about you? What do you choose? Why not go for ordinary days with extraordinary love.