Learning from Laundry

Learning from Laundry

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Often the things we complain and grumble about are actually some of our greatest blessings.

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Anyone prone to hating the task of doing laundry?

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I can walk into a room that is temperature controlled and has electricity and running water to do laundry. I don’t have to walk out into a harsh climate and find water to bring back to the house or carry my laundry to a water source.

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I can push a few buttons and have machines wash and dry my laundry for me. I don’t have to scrub my laundry by hand.

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I have a pile of laundry that needs to be washed and folded, because I am blessed with clothes to wear, towels to use, sheets to sleep on.

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I have small kid clothes to wash, somehow more frequently than my own clothes, because I am blessed with a daughter to raise.

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While my husband washes his own clothes (we learned in our first year of marriage that it was best for us to do our own clothes…can go more into depth about that later😉), I can either grumble that he always seems to have a load sitting in the dryer, or I can see it as a constant reminder that I have him.

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When we start to view the tasks we despise as actually blessings, we’ll no longer be resentful. We’ll instead rejoice at the gifts we’ve so graciously been given. The next time you have a basket of laundry to fold, use it as a time of prayer, thanking God for all He has given you. That’s what I’m working towards.