Wednesday 4 April 2012

Katie Boone on Being Called to the Mundane


There’s a thoughtful, short reflection here, by Katie Boone, on ‘called to the mundane’.


An excerpt:


‘Mundane, repetitive work teaches humility. You are not too good for it. In fact you will be quite good at it. I saw how my work made worship and discipleship possible, but it never felt like I was actually using any real gift. What I did not see was that the work was good for me. Humility sluices the ego and frees us to laugh. Repetition brings stillness and in that stillness we can hear God. Simplicity gives the gift of sight and we learn the practice of attention. There is no single lesson to the mundane only that God created it and called it good.’

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