Maidservant to Oxen

Okay, I've almost beaten myself up with this one: I am a wife and a mother, but not a maid!

In order to keep a clean home, you've gotta live with people that care about the cleanliness of their home. That means picking up their own dirty clothes off of the floor to place them in the laundry hamper. That also means not leaving dirty glasses, bowls or plates on end tables or window ledges rather than in the dishwasher or even the sink! That also means when making a new pot of coffee, just simply rinsing all those coffee grounds down the drain so that they don't dry in the sink and leave an icky mess! And it also means peeing directly in the toilet rather than all over the wall or floor! I think almost half of my housekeeping duties is spent in picking up after other people or constantly cleaning the bathroom!

But, as my pastor pointed out in his sermon this past Sunday, my house is alive with people!

When there are no oxen in the barn, it is a clean barn! It is sparkly clean and actually smells good! But when you add oxen to that barn, it gets to be busy and full of messy "stuff" and icky smells! But it's a sign that that barn is alive with activity!

So, albeit my house may not be the tidiest in the neighborhood and be full of sticky, gooey messes on the floor, dirty dishes whose home was found on a window ledge or bathtub ledge or dirty laundry on the floor, it is alive with people!

And as Christ so eloquently states in the Bible, we should be servants to people.

So, I don my little skimpy maid uniform and hat, trepse around the house and continue serving my oxen!

Mooooooo! Oh man, that one just made a big mess on the barnyard floor!