It's been a most hectic weekend. Hectic but thankfully, productive. The house got vacuumed, the floors mopped, the toilets scrubbed, the clothes ironed, fresh blueberry muffins baked, the extended family got a home-cooked Sunday evening meal and we even managed to squeeze in a visit to the Ancient Egyptian exhibit at the National Museum. The nagging question has been, "Did I need an honours degree in Psychology to have done all that?!?". I'm still working on that...
Margaret Peterson's book "Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life" has been food for thought. She's done her Bible homework well. An excerpt from the review on the back says it best. "Christian service and spiritual growth are inherent in the acts of keeping people fed, clean, housed and comfortable. Housekeeping, she says, is akin to a litany, a long public prayer to announce needs and requests. A litany is repetitive and focused on the basics: food, health, shelter. Similarly, housework is ongoing and incarnational, teaching us about Jesus' earthiness and decision to live among us; it requires perpetual tending, much like God's active sustaining of the world."
How true. Our floor will be in dire need of another mopping all too soon.
Your honours degree makes you a very educated mother to Jared!! Your blueberry muffins look extremely luscious by the way ;)
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