“I don’t think about the ‘little duties’, I just do them.” That was the answer I received. That’s how I remember the answer.
My question had to do with the daily round, the routine which may so easily crush us. Let me just name some of the ‘little duties’, the daily chores: Washing the dishes, making the bed, sweeping the floor, baking. Add more if you want to!
NOBODY is excempt from the ‘little duties’, the daily chores!
Are you easily crushed by the routine?
An anonymous writer says this about the ‘little duties’:
“Life is full of little duties. Worrying about them, grumbling about them, dwelling upon them makes the duties shackles which bind us, but just doing the duties makes them wings.”
Does that help you?
The BIBLE says, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” – First Corinthians 10:31
Who is crushed by dirty dishes? It does not really matter, if you have a dishwasher or not.
The following is helping me tremendeously when I am thinking about the dirty dishes.
“The following poem was found on the wall of a shepherd’s cottage out of SEDDEN in the 1960’s………….
Thank God for dirty dishes
They have a tale to tell
While others may go hungry
We’ve eaten very well
With home and help and happiness
We shouldn’t want to fuss
For by the stack of evidence
God’s been very good to us.
Sent in by Hassanah Lawler of Nelson.” – (Age Concern Newsletter, August 2009)
Please read Ephesians 5:20 and First Thessalonians 5:18.
Not long ago I came across this VICTORIAN WISDOM:
“NOTHING IS TROUBLESOME THAT WE DO WILLINGLY.”
Read again the answer I received when I asked about the daily routine. The answer was: “I don’t think about the little duties, I just do them.”
“I don’t think about the ‘little duties’, I just do them.” That was the answer I received. That’s how I remember the answer.