Holy Motherhood!
On baby poop, picking up socks and living the holy in the ordinary.
By Sarah Styles Bessey
Blog: www.emergingmummy.com | Twitter: @emergingmummy
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I’m scrubbing washrooms and folding laundry and the baby just pooped everywhere. I’m organizing meals for the sick and trying to write and raise these tinies to live the big nouns of love and freedom and wholeness while still picking up their socks and we’re in the daily work of life, aren’t we, friends?
“I have come to believe that the true mystics of the quotidian are not those who contemplate holiness in isolation, reaching godlike illumination in serene silence, but those who manage to find God in a life filled with noise, the demands of other people and relentless daily duties that can consume the self. They may be young parents juggling child-rearing and making a living; they may be monks or nuns in a small community who have to wear three or four “hats” because there are more jobs to fill than people to fill them. If they are wise, they treasure the rare moments of solitude and silence that come their way, and use them not to escape, to distract themselves with television and the like. Instead, they listen for a sign of God’s presence and they open their hearts toward prayer.”
“God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.”
~ from my much-beloved and dog-eared copy of Kathleen Norris’ life-transforming meditation “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women’s Work.”
God is near and here right now. We’re contemplating holiness in the noise and the giving, we’re giving him glory in the moments, small and big, seen and unseen.
Here’s to finding–and glorifying–God in the everyday, my friends.
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About Sarah:
Sarah Styles Bessey lives in Abbotsford, BC with her husband and three tinies. She’s a happy clappy Jesus-lover, non-profit marketing director, blogger, writer and simple living/social justice wannabe. She blogs at www.emergingmummy.com and tweets from @emergingmummy.
Image credit: Michal Zacharzewski
