"When there are lots of things to do you have to establish priorities, to get organised. Many difficulties stem from downright disorder. There are women who do hundreds of things and all of them well because they are well organised and have courageously imposed order on all their work. They know how to concentrate at each moment on what they have to do, without getting worried about what is round the corner, or what they might have been able to do before. Others are overwhelmed by all that there is to do, and because they are overwhelmed, they do nothing."From: Conversations with Msgr. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, no. 88
Jose Maria Escriva's Writings
It is not so much all the work we have to do, but how we approach our work which counts. We all share so many similar responsibilities – our meals, and laundry, and tidying, our family relationships, or spousal relationship, our prayer life and sacramental lives… It's pretty much the same stuff all the way around.
But how we approach these tasks can make all the difference. My mother used to say, "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." Why? Because people who are busy attending to the responsibilities of their lives are usually organized.
it is a simple little thing here – organization – which can make or break our vocation.
And it originates in our reason – the secret of organization – to discover the purpose behind the actions and duties we are called to perform, for God, and then figure out "When" am I going to do them?
I have always felt bad on days when I didn't do my work, and I would feel even more bad by the end of a week when I shirked my duties more and more. But if I hopped back on a basic schedule, you could be sure that I felt better within the hour – joy within the hour.
Let's apply our minds and hearts with all our might to do the job God has entrusted to us – raising our families – and to do it well. He is counting on us. The world is counting on children raised properly – look at the news.
