Just like the goal of the laundry is not to have it completed, so the goal of any housekeeping job is not for it to be completed. Laundry, dishes, and dusting teach us about life itself. Life is full of ongoing work that we continue to do because it continues to accrue. As we continually do the repetitive work of our home, we can learn that we also must continually do the work of our heart, which won’t be static and stay clean until Jesus returns. The outside work mirrors the inside work and vice versa. In both, we can plug away daily in ten-minute chunks, content with faithful plodding.
