“When obedience leads you to engage in external tasks, understand that the Lord walks among you—even in the kitchen, among the pots and pans—and helps you both inwardly and outwardly.” — Teresa of Ávila, The Book of the Foundations
More than five hundred years ago, the Spanish saint Teresa of Ávila reminded her fellow sisters that the divine is not confined to cloisters, silence, or sacred rituals. God, she insisted, is present everywhere—also in the kitchen, also in the midst of ordinary labor. Her message is simple yet radical: the spiritual is not separate from life. Life itself is spiritual.
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