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klsiegel320Point to Ponder: I was planned for God's pleasure.
Verse to Remember: The Lord takes pleasure in his people. --Psalm 149:4a (TEV)
Question to Consider: What common task could I start doing as if I were doing it directly for Jesus?
Another very Celtic chapter. I love the author's comments on how some people categorize things like music. The terminology is clearly from a different denomination (i.e., "first we sang a hymn, then a praise and worship song"), but the sentiment is very familiar.
I admit, I fall into this. I tend to think of worship as liturgy, or liturgy as worship, forgetting that every act done in consciousness of the presence of the Divine is worship.
Thich Naht Hahn talks about this in one of his books, about washing the dishes tenderly as though one were washing the baby Buddha (or for Christians, the baby Jesus) - about cherishing the things we're given in sheer gratitude for their existence and for God's presence.
Benedict also talks about this, when he says that the vessels of the kitchen should be given the same reverence as the vessels of the altar. Taking care of the things of our common life is itself an act of worship.
I think I can answer this question in one word: dishes! I have a loathing for the washing of dishes which is difficult to explain, describe - or overcome. We have theories...but theories do not get the dishes done. Perhaps doing them as if they were Jesus' dishes...? Couldn't hurt.
Verse to Remember: The Lord takes pleasure in his people. --Psalm 149:4a (TEV)
Question to Consider: What common task could I start doing as if I were doing it directly for Jesus?
Another very Celtic chapter. I love the author's comments on how some people categorize things like music. The terminology is clearly from a different denomination (i.e., "first we sang a hymn, then a praise and worship song"), but the sentiment is very familiar.
I admit, I fall into this. I tend to think of worship as liturgy, or liturgy as worship, forgetting that every act done in consciousness of the presence of the Divine is worship.
Thich Naht Hahn talks about this in one of his books, about washing the dishes tenderly as though one were washing the baby Buddha (or for Christians, the baby Jesus) - about cherishing the things we're given in sheer gratitude for their existence and for God's presence.
Benedict also talks about this, when he says that the vessels of the kitchen should be given the same reverence as the vessels of the altar. Taking care of the things of our common life is itself an act of worship.
I think I can answer this question in one word: dishes! I have a loathing for the washing of dishes which is difficult to explain, describe - or overcome. We have theories...but theories do not get the dishes done. Perhaps doing them as if they were Jesus' dishes...? Couldn't hurt.
