{"id":580,"date":"2011-03-24T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/?p=580"},"modified":"2011-03-23T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:54:29","slug":"do-you-know-what-quotidian-means-and-do-you-know-how-much-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2011\/03\/do-you-know-what-quotidian-means-and-do-you-know-how-much-it-matters.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What Quotidian Means? (And do you know how much it matters?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently reread a book by Kathleen Norris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?item_no=WW38018&amp;p=1149172\">The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and Women&#8217;s Work<\/a>. Thankfully, she includes a definition of quotidian as an epigraph. It means pertaining to the every day, and my life is consumed by every day activities, especially with a newborn. I wrote a post for her.meneutics as reflection: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2011\/03\/the_divine_grace_of_diapers_an.html\">The Divine Grace of Diapers<\/a>.&#8221; It begins:<\/p>\n<p>I sat in the chair with a sleeping baby on my lap. I held her close, and I prayed. I prayed about the things I wanted to be doing \u2014 responding to e-mail, taking a shower, writing an essay. And I admitted my fears to God:\u00a0<em>Those things feel so much more important than this<\/em>. Yet I saw the lie I was succumbing to, and I looked once more at my daughter\u2019s round face, and I prayed that I would have faith in the importance of holding my child.<\/p>\n<div>It takes faith to be a parent. It takes faith for me to care for our three children day after day. It takes faith to believe that this 30-minute episode of crying, or this midnight, bleary-eyed feeding, or this time-out for hitting your sister, or this poopy diaper \u2014 that these will bear fruit. That they matter, and even eternally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To read more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2011\/03\/the_divine_grace_of_diapers_an.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently reread a book by Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and Women&#8217;s Work. Thankfully, she includes a definition of quotidian as an epigraph. It means pertaining to the every day, and my life is consumed by every day activities, especially with a newborn. 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