In heaven ...

Today I'm remembering the good things in life as I spend a day with my kids and no nagging guilt lurking behind every free minute shouting "study, you must study!" Praise the good Lord I was able to finish this semester and I'm marching on (ok maybe limping, with a dehydration headache and stopping way too much for that cramp in my side but it is forward progress and I am grateful). I had a deep thought today - not so theological but I really, really hoped that there would be NO LAUNDRY in heaven. I mean - I think I could handle some tears but laundry - please no. It feels like the myth of Sysiphus - never ending torture. I guess I will choose to be thankful to have my own washer and dryer so I don't have to haul it to the laundry mat, or that I don't live on a fourth floor walk up with no washer - or be grateful that we have wonderful clothes and great handme downs for our kids - but today, as with the grind of life I am living in the hope that one day when Jesus makes all things new - clothes will be self cleaning (and folded and put away) It's great that our discomfort here can make us hope and perservere for the good promises yet to come - and I can do that today without having to study a bit and with plenty more laudry left to remind me to be thankful for the little things.