Monday, May 29:
Often we think of prayer as something we can only do at church. But 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says, “pray without ceasing,” meaning, we are meant to pray wherever we are. This week we are going to be intentional about praying in difference spaces we find ourselves throughout our days.
Today, I encourage you to pray these words in your kitchen as you start your day:
“Many are the things that must be daily done.
Meet me therefore, O Lord,
in the doing of the small, repetitive tasks,
In the cleaning and ordering and
Maintenance and stewardship of things –
of dishes, of floors, of carpets
and toilets and tubs,
of scrubbing and sweeping
and dusting and laundering –
that by such stewardship I might bring
a greater order to my own life,
and to the lives of any I am given to serve,
so that in those ordered spaces bright things might flourish:
fellowship and companionship,
creativity and conversation,
learning and laughter
and enjoyment and health.
As I steward the small, daily tasks, may I remember
These good ends, and so discover in my labors
The promise of the eternal hopes that underlie them.
Amen.”
–A Liturgy for Domestic Days, Every Moment Holy, Volume One
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