Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord (Col 3:23)

The verse above from Colossians is a reminder (if we need one) that whoever we are and whatever is involved in fulfilling our everyday responsibilities and tasks, we and they matter to God, and in Christ we are able to offer them to Him as act of worship, which He gladly receives. Thinking on that reminded me of an old hymn written by George Herbert which reinforces the point:

Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee:

All may of thee partake:
Nothing can be so mean,
Which with his tincture (for thy sake)
Will not grow bright and clean.

A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th’ action fine.

This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold:
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for less be told