cheerful chorefulness

today is saturday, and normally a cleaning house-buying grocery-laundering clothes kind of day.  i look around the place where i live, seeing all the "stuff" that is mine, and am thankful.  i think gratefulness is such a huge part of living "caught in the overflow."  for me, i realize just how much i have been given and want to be in a perpetual state of appreciation, not in an autopilot taking-for-granted or an i've-worked-for-this-it's-owed-to-me attitude.  so as i clean our home, provide for my family and suck dust bunnies, wipe toothpaste off the mirror, empty garbage, do dishes and put things away for the umpteenmillionth time, i breathe a prayer of joy to my Provider and feel contented rest at the end of this day.  and tomorrow is another day ... of thankfulness for the past week, of worship in the present moment, and surrender for the coming week.  God indeed is so good!