discovered this this morning...
thanks to marty at sam's family
made me weep
to find someone who shares the same spirit...
ANN VOSKAMP: What to Always Remember When You're Working
"All work is good, the work of our hands is always making the world a better place
and work is my liturgy, motions of worship to Him,
who from
and to
and through
are all things.
All was once ordered, perfect, pristine back there, In the Beginning.
In that garden.
But not now, not in this house...this garden.
Science may call it entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, the wearing down of all systems, the measure of chaos.
God calls it sin and decay, and my daily battle.
Weeds, dirty laudry, piling dishes, dust collecting...this is life after the fall.
Yet in small ways, I return to Father and the Perfect Time Before
when I order, wash away, sweep clean....beating back the chaos, the powers of destruction.
Simple acts of cleaning are my humble, conquerings efforts
in the quotidian struggle between chaos and order,
creation and disintergration, God and death.
And I frame this cleaning as my monastic beauty, my daily wrestle,
to create, in imperfect ways,
a world for these loved ones...
like You created for humanity when the world began.
Deliberate easy motions maintain an easy order.
Easier than wrestling order out of invading chaos.
And a tidy house ushers in the possibility of a tidy heart.
A heart beating with His, in a place more like it was In the Beginning
Is this housework a picture of Redemption?...to bring restoration to that which has fallen...
"To lift up the hands in prayer brings God glory
but a man with a dungfork
and a woman with a slop pail
give Him glory
God is so great that all things give Him glory
if you mean that they should"
~St Ignatious Loyola
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes
~Harold B. Lee
Whatever you do
do it wholeheartidly as unto the Lord
~Ephesians 6:8
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