my spiritual act of worship

Here is an excerpt from Ann V. at Holy Experience-- a thoughtful post and conversation with Mental Multivitamin among others... something I have been thinking about a lot lately, and just stumbled across in the blogosphere.

It began with this question from the author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World
Ask yourself, What are the implications, personal and political, of the choice many highly educated women make to bend their (advanced) education to the primarily quotidian pursuits of child care and housekeeping?

Can you respond without resorting to clichés and Hallmark sentimentality?

a small portion of Ann V.'s response quoted here...

The Quotidian Universe and Liturgy

As to “the choice many highly educated women make to bend their (advanced) education to… primarily quotidian pursuits” may I respectfully posit that the entire universe is rooted in quotidian pursuits: the rising of the tides, the dawning and setting of the sun, the endless daily rotation of this planet. To undertake the quotidian is to step into the hallowedness of the Other, to fall into the rhythm of the dance of Creation. There is no shame in such a choice. For this quotidian work is liturgy. A derivative of the Greek word leitourgi , liturgy means public service. Liturgy isn't only prescribed services in hushed, hallowed places. Liturgy is prescribed services--like making of the beds every morning---in very domestic places before a Holy God...who makes all places holy. These quotidian pursuits of childcare and homekeeping are my liturgy, my act of public service.