Welcome to God's Blaining, contemplative preachers, contemporary age.

Each week joined the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

Welcome to God's explaining.

I am Father Jacob Bertrand. Today I'm here with our very own Father Gregory. Hey, how you doing?

I'm doing well. I'm back in Freiburg and Weather's Beautiful.

So I was sitting outside earlier reading a book about the atonement by Eleanor Stump and

you know one of the friars was like putting down new mulch in the garden, which was nice.

It's always good to survey someone else's work.

While you yourself do not work, well I suppose I was doing work of a certain sort, but certainly not his work that permitted me to keep my hands free of mulch.

So I would describe my present state as peaceful and delightedly aloof from gardening.

From gardening.

Okay, that's great.

Well, I might have said this on another episode at some point or another,

but when I decided to enter religious life, my dad said that I entered religious life to avoid doing manual labor because I always hated doing yard work growing up.

Or at least that's how it's proposed, like the past is kind of, you know re-told by the victor and I guess like my

dad won this one but I don't remember having a particular disdain for yard work but just like a

disdain for having to do like mulch things and like whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's it's a matter of finding what work you like because when chores were portioned in our house it

typically wasn't done by like proclivity or affinity it was just done by random

maternal Fiat I came to discover there a couple things that I do like doing folding laundry nice

hate that you really okay oh at least I I dread folding laundry like I will have to when I do

laundry I will have to dump out the clean clothes like from the laundry when I bring it back to my room. I'll have to dump it on my bed so that I will fold it because I'm a little OCD and if I won't go to sleep if the work's not done so that's the only way I hate

Folding I'd rather like like clean the bathroom and like do dishes and like I'd rather do anything I'd rather mulched than full

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