Mindful of Sweet White Sheets

"Economists are now studying attention – and the religious are studying mindfulness. Mindfulness keeps us focused and attentive to an object, event or series of thoughts of our own choosing. The work of mindfulness requires calibration because the demands upon our attention are numerous." Father Gawain

Mindfulness gets me nowhere on a web search. Only one hit in a search in the ELCA site, that being hidden away in a list of New Theological Directions. "Jesus' emphasis on eschatology is minimal, hence his devotion to the godly life now; Paul's mindfulness of the end of all time is greater. Jesus' teachings on church-as-institution are minimal; Paul's are necessarily greater."

Last night we made our bed with the bedding right off of the clothes lines. The smell of line dried sheets is right up there with the smell of my mother's homemade bread. I have helped her take frozen sheets from the clothes line, as hard as boards, and hung them on a temporary line in the living room to finish drying. That aroma penetrated the whole house.

We were mindful of our blessings as we settled down for rest after a day's labor. The bright whiteness of the bedding, the wonderful ozone aroma, and the luxury of our new mattress and box spring were about the best that this world has to offer.