Household Tasks

What is the matter with manual labor?  Jesus did it for 30 years.  It is done in obscurity, like most manual labor.  Look at household tasks.  No one has a tombstone or an obituary or celebration of life funeral, where people talk about all the household tasks they did.  No one says, “Mom or Dad took care of us while we sat around and did nothing but complain about life.”  I clean up after dinner at our rectory and put away all the food in sealed containers.  And throw out the old food that no one ate.  It is being of service and is holy work.  All household work is holy.  If I keep this in mind, then I don’t end up resentful and whining.  Well, maybe now and again.