Read this and it made me stop in my tracks.
“… I putter about the hermitage, make
the bed, wash the breakfast dishes, sweep the porch; and something
begins to order itself inside me as I order my external world. The
ordering and puttering become a kind of prayer, a way of attending to
the human which is a way of attending to the divine, charged as we are
and the world is with the presence of God. Domestic chores also become
simply something to do. One cannot pray and meditate unendingly. There
is a rhythm to life lived anywhere that calms the heart if we surrender
to the necessities of the world around us and the world within.”
—Thomas Merton
http://parabola-magazine.tumblr.com/post/5545167562/i-putter-about-the-hermitage-make-the-bed
Very thought provoking. It is something to ponder ever.
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