Encouragement in daily life: bakers on a mission

My husband came home one day 

with this bracelet for me from a bakery

what has opening hiring (i.e. they 

will take people on as they can

without questions and so serve the 

disadvantaged, homeless, etc.)

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Bakers with a mission.

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It's pretty cool.

It's nice to know that there are places that are doing things

that focus on caring for people 

rather than profit or some sort of end result that

is computed only in an office...

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I hope that my baking can be used for good as well.

I keep the bracelet from this bakery

on my stove top now,

reminding me that anything I do

can be used by God to bless others.

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I am seeing this theme,

of God working through ordinary events and 

routine doings,

like baking or washing dishes,

through a book I just finished:

The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality) by Kathleen Norris

and a book I finally am able to read...

Mat. Constantina's

Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Woman's Monastery.

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It is wonderful to remember that our little lives,

with the dailiness of routines, dishes and cleaning,

can be used for our salvation and 

the blessing of others.