The exceptional nature of our Sun

While I read an article about the sun, as everyone know the sun will raise before long. May wonder, is that important? Yes because without the radiance of the sun earth's trillions of living things including us would not be here.
Gone would be the variety of the life distributed among the millions of species, ranging from single celled bacteria to immense whales.
It is true not all the sun's reaches our planet. Yet even those few crumbs from the solar table are enough to nourish and sustain life on the earth. Not only that, but if this tiny trickle that arrives could be used efficiently, it could easily meet the energy needs of our moder society, with power to spare.
Most astronomy books say that our Sun is an ordinary star, A Rather Commonplace Celestial Object. But is the sun in every aspect a common place celestial object? Should this affect the search for the life on other planets?
Certainly God gave one of most greatest gift to all of us!