Conquering Housekeeper’s Acedia Series
Monday 
in mid-afternoon 
Mystie
From March 2009
Not My Own
My life, my work, my abilities are not mine, but entrusted to me.
Does It Matter?
Does my little life and the little things I do all day really matter?
How Then Shall We Work?
“Do not be idle, but work hard with the tasks set before you, for doing so is eternally significant.”
Work As Worship
“And so it is fitting to examine our work, yet to rest in our souls. To rest in our souls, and yet work hard with our hands.”
Readiness
“It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me, and this applies even to doing dishes and sweeping the floor. I find that it is not about working more frantically, but using wisdom with the resources I have to do what tasks God has placed in front of me. It is about wisdom and diligence, but it is not about anxiety or endless to-do lists.”
Journeying
Suddenly, the obvious crashed in on me. All three of these books describe people’s environs, people’s habits, people’s hygiene, as a part of communicating something meaningful about them. It is simply assumed that these things are meaningful. Not only that, but I had inferred meaning by these accounts, I had accepted without question what the author was communicating through these details. Suddenly, through fiction, I saw the inescapability of it; it was simply true.
