I do my personal devotion from *Our Daily Bread* which mostly inspires me to write my *On This Morning*
Last friday, Nov.3, I read from our Daily Bread titled *The Daily Grind*& jotted it down to share today. Here we go:
_The High School i attended required 4 years of latin instruction. I appreciate the value of that discipline now, but back then it was a *grind.*_
_Our teacher believed in drill &repetition. 'Repetitio est mater studiorum' she intoned over us several times a day,which simply means 'Repetition is the mother of learning.' Repetitio est absurdun,' we muttered under our breadth.'Repetition is absurd.'_
_I read now that most of life is simply:Repetition-a round of dull,uninspiring,lackluster things we must do again and again._
_Repetition is both as ordinary& necessary as bread, said Danish philosopher soren Keirkegaard. But he went on to say,'It is the bread that satisfies with benediction._
_It is a matter of taking up each duty,no matter how mundane,humble or trivial and asking God to bless it and put it to his intended purposes.In that way we take the drudgeries of life and turn them into holy work,filled with unseen,eternal consequence._
_The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said, 'To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory,but a man with a pitchfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail,give him glory,too. God is so great that all things give him glory if you mean that they should.'_
_If whatever we do is done for Christ,we'll be amazed at the joy&meaning we'll find in even the most ordinary tasks._
PRAY:Remind us,Lord that you are in the dull&ordinary tasks in a most extraordinary way. May we do even the smallest tasks for you.
( *BY DAVID ROPER*)
*SO I SAY:*
*BE BLESSED WITH THE DAILY GRIND.*
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