Round the Sphere Again: Working Well

In the Home
Two practical posts from Rachel Meeks (Small Notebook) on keeping a home clean and orderly.

• Make a Weekly Cleaning Routine. A common sense post that includes a blank template to help the reader work out a cleaning schedule appropriate to their unique situation.
• How to Make It Easier to Clean Kids Rooms. If you have young children, this might be a help. (I know from experience that things get more complicated when they get a little older. I’ve been told that some teens have neat and organized rooms, but I’ve never actually seen it.)

As a Christian
Two on vocation:

• Which Vocations Should Be Off Limits to Christians (Gene Veith at The Gospel Coalition Voices). I’m not sure I agree with every jot and tittle of this article, but it’s very useful for working through the question of whether there are some jobs Christians should avoid. And I especially appreciated this point:

  Before God all vocations are equal. But that is not so in the world. Often the highest-paying and the highest-status jobs do less for the neighbor than do jobs that the world tends to look down upon. I am ready to concede that the professional athlete and the movie star have legitimate vocations in giving brief moments of pleasure to millions of people. But the love and service rendered by the men who pick up our garbage every week or the women who clean up our hotel rooms is far more immediate and far more important.

• 7 Motives in Our Work (Matt Perman). “By doing good work and enjoying it, for the glory of God and good of others, you not only serve your workplace, but, through that, you serve and transform society as well.”