The Home as a Sacred Temple??

Manfred Schmidt-Brabant said:
"Only when the homemaker sees herself as a new type of priestess can life in the household be understood as a sacrament and so become a seed for the new Mystery culture."
The Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker

Well, I am having a hard time being a priestess today. Finding another round of cat pee, this time on my balls of yarn (!!!) , has left me very frustrated. Evidently the cat is now feeling too old to jump over the child safety gates to get to the litter box. Trying to clean that up, while the 1 year old systematically takes ALL the toys off the shelf that we had just put away, and the 2 1/2 year old whines about something or anything, did not make me feel very much like a priestess. This house is not a sacred space right now!

Luckily I can reflect on the good things that happened today. Duncan didn't willfully hurt Rebecca once. Dinner was yummy and healthy. We had a big thunderstorm all afternoon and Duncan thought it was very funny that the thunder came from the clumsy giants in the sky dropping their water cups, which also caused the rain. I was able to provide loving care for my family and house despite my frustrations (maybe there is a little of the sacred in that after all).