Contemplation

I just read this blog post in my reader from GirlTalk and it made me think. Martin Luther just has a way with words. Now, the blog is about babies and parents so a little disclaimer here that I am not near having children so no conclusions to be hopped here.

But anyway, it's really talking about doing the everyday things with an eternal perspective. Of course, it takes a different route when talking about a child because they are eternal, but so is every person we come into contact with. Seeing that I do not have my own children, as I read this article I see the mundane as grocery shopping and talking to the greeter or the cashier or the stock boy; I see mundane as cleaning the house, folding clothes, washing dishes for my dear and wonderful husband; I see mundane as walking out of my apartment and passing my neighbor in the breezeway. When I look at all of these people as eternal, these seemingly mundane things become eternal as well. It is a privilege I have to come into contact with each person. It is a privilege to be able to love and serve my husband. It is what I don't deserve, just like my own salvation. Knowing all this, how much more should I do these mundane things with upward honor and adoration. In doing so, by His grace, those I come in contact with will see this upward-living.