Comments on: One Eternal Round: Finding the divine in the mundane https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-852973 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:34:52 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-852973 4.5

]]> By: April Andreason https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-60876 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:08:36 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-60876 Thank you for this thoughtful take on “one eternal round.” That’s wonderful!

]]> By: mormonwomen https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-44896 Sat, 14 May 2011 03:26:02 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-44896 Hm. I dunno how it works, Emily. Elder Maxwell suggests that maybe He’s more involved than we think. I can totally see the way you are headed with that, too, and it could be. I think there is a lot of spiritual value in teaching, in passing along things so that we are not ‘controlling’ it all.

Or maybe it’s something else altogether. It’s interesting to mull over, dontcha think?

]]> By: Emily https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-44895 Sat, 14 May 2011 03:17:36 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-44895 Very nice, good quotes. I was also thinking, maybe God’s work is not so monotonous because he teaches everything to to take care of itself so he doesn’t have to (plants, flowers reproduce on their own is my only example). What does that teach us — teach our kids to take care of the things they can so we don’t have to?

]]> By: handsfullmom https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-43915 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:59:17 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-43915 Michelle, thank you for linking to this post on Segullah. I had never heard those quotes you reference and I love them. The first one by Maxwell reminded me of a part of the Screwtape Letters I was struck by:

* But since He does not wish them to make change, any more than eating, an end in itself, He has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify both tastes together on the very world He has made, by that union of change and permanence which we call Rhythm. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. . . If we neglect our duty, men will be not only contented but transported by the mixed novelty and familiarity of snowdrops this January, sunrise this morning, plum pudding this Christmas. ”

One eternal round, each day many things the same yet also different, and the opportunity to be transported by the mixed novelty and familiarity of our routine.

]]> By: a d https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-42446 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:49:26 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-42446 Even when I go to a lodge or hire a vacation home, I arrange the furnishings, hide unsightly bedspreads, make little center piece arrangements with some free fruit from the lobby and change the place into my space.

]]> By: Steph @ Diapers and Divinity https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-39874 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:54:12 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-39874 Thanks for these quotes. They are very helpful with some research I’ve been doing. This gave me a whole new insight into that phrase “the same today as yesterday, and forever.”

]]> By: Heidi https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/30/one-eternal-round-finding-the-divine-in-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-39867 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:35:34 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8589#comment-39867 Boy, I surely needed to read this today! What wonderful insights! If I could add just a little bit to this–I have found, when I am feeling profoundly grateful, that I have charity. When I have charity, I feel profoundly grateful. To me, they are almost the same thing. It’s difficult to feel grateful for the opportunity to perform those mundane tasks again and again (even people who are the blossoms of the tree have to eat and bathe over and over again) but when I DO, it feels like a privilege. Happy Sunday!

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