Prayer in our Daily Occupations

"Even if we do not make such glorious poems out of our ordinary experiences, arranging Easter lilies or making salad, we are free to contemplete both emptiness and fullness, absence and presence in the everyday circumstances of our lives.  No less a saint than Therese of Lisieux admitted in her Story of a Soul that Christ was most abundantly present to her not 'during my hours of prayer...but rather in the midst of my daily occupations' (emphasis mine)."

~ The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry Liturgy and Women's Work by Kathleen Norris