Glory in the Ordinary
Why Your Work in the Home Matters to God
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Publisher Description
Folding laundry. Weeding the garden. Cooking dinner. Changing diapers. Work in the home can seem so ordinary. Does any of it matter? Is there meaning in our most mundane moments at home?
When the work of the home fills our days, it is easy to get disillusioned and miss God's grand purpose for our work. As image bearers of the Creator who made us to work, we contribute to society, bringing order out of chaos and loving God through loving others—meaning there's glory in every moment. In this encouraging book, Courtney Reissig combats the common misconceptions about the value of at-home work—helping us see how Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary.
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In this thoughtful, practical ode to the quotidian, Reissig (Accidental Feminist) glorifies ordinary household work: cooking and cleaning and changing diapers. Our work, she repeats often, "is a means of loving God by loving our neighbor." "Neighbor," to Reissig, includes social and faith communities, husbands, and children. The first of the eight chapters in this little book, all with Biblical passages threaded through, explores the shift from "housewife" to "stay-at-home mom." Reissig acknowledges how disillusioning work can be, asserts that it does take a village, and declares that women have got to ask for help and receive it graciously as God-given. She also convincingly distinguishes between women's godly guilt and worldly grief. Reissig ends each chapter with a vignette of how a woman she knows (including her own mother) handled the issue addressed in the chapter, and adds a series of questions for the reader, whom she addresses familiarly throughout. Her style repetitive, with overlong quotations and bumptious transitions assumes an earnest research-paper tone from a fundamentalist viewpoint. Though the message is at times delivered severely, the sentiment of respect for the ordinary is well-conveyed and necessary.
