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28/07: Stuck Inside These Four Walls
I spend much of my time at home with my family. My wife spends even more of her time at home. With two young kids, we can often feel stuck at home. Stuck is probably too negative of term, but I am sure most parents feel stuck now and then.Most people spend a lot of time in their house and there are so many chores to do inside those four walls. It is often difficult to feel spiritual when you are washing dishes or taking out the trash. I question whether God is calling me to do more than change diapers or read the same old stories, time and time again, to my kids.
Do you ever question your connection or devotion to God when you spend so much of your day doing the mundane? I know I do.
Let me tell you about a Brother Lawrence. He was assigned to the monastery kitchen where, amidst the tedious chores of cooking and cleaning at the constant bidding of his superiors, he developed his rule of spirituality and work. For Brother Lawrence, the mundane or routine was the medium of God's love. The issue was not the sacredness or worldly status of the task but the motivation behind it. "Nor is it needful that we should have great things to do. . . We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God."
This is something I must learn. When I wash dishes, I can thank God for the food we had today. I can thank God for clean water. I can pray for those who are hungry and have no clean water. When I mow the lawn, I can pray for our neighbors. I can pray for their needs and how God might be able to use me to point them toward Him.
How sad it is that I still tend to separate the spiritual from the mundane. To God, everything is spiritual. And if everything becomes spiritual, then there is no mundane.
Have a God filled week,
Dan Todd
Discipleship and Small Groups
St Marks UMC