Today I am teaming up with Lisa-Jo Baker on Five Minute Friday. Each Friday she gives one word and bloggers from all over write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. And then we link up with her. Here's my first shot at it!
The word today is: Laundry.
Laundry - a kind of a rite of passage in itself. It means I am caring for myself and others in
a concrete way. For me, it’s a cleansing
of more than the outer because I find it lightens the load (no pun intended). There is something about a routine ritual
that is part of living. Its repetitive
nature means there is no ultimate completion of this responsibility but for
some reason, the sense of accomplishment rewards me. Even
sorting begins to release the pressure valve I experience when I see overflowing
laundry baskets. And as I work through
the laundry process, there is time to think, plan and consider the things the
Spirit has laid upon my heart. It’s as
if each disappearing pile gives me a more spacious place mentally to ruminate
about life.
And isn't that how life is to be lived really? Doing that which needs to be done but
allowing the Lord to be part of it.
Because laundry is what He does. He takes that which is unclean and makes it
clean. Could there be a higher calling
than that?
Wow! I think the topic for Five Minute Friday will change the way that I think about laundry. I love the reminder Jesus takes what is unclean and makes it clean. I am stopping by from Five Minute Friday. Have a blessed weekend.
ReplyDelete"Doing what needs to be done but allowing the Lord to be a part of it." Amen and Amen!! Thank you and be blessed this weekend.
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