What are you reading this summer?

Please tell us what you're digging into these days. Click on the "comments" button below and share favorite book titles, online articles or terrific websites.

Here's a recommendation from Karen Marsh to get things started:

In her brief book, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and 'Women's Work', Kathleen Norris presents the Christian perspective on everydayness, on the work in our lives that is never finished. Whether we are doing laundry duty or laboring in the workplace, we certainly struggle to find inspiration in the daily routine.

Norris writes, "We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing and evenecstasy , but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting where we are, not where we wish we were. We must look for blessings to come from unlikely, everyday places--out of Galilee, as it were--and not in spectacular events, such as the coming of a comet....There is a a sacramental possiblity in all things."

The Quotidian Mysteries has travelled in my bag all summer. Now when I face another round of dirty dishes, I remember, "We are, all of us, Christian men and women, engaged in priestly work, the work of transformation. But it may be work that is deemed useless by the standards of the world...But what we dread as mindless activity can free us, mind and heart, for the workings of the Holy Spirit..."

So let us hear from you... and happy reading!