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The work of Anthony Giddens gets almost an entire chapter devoted to his ideologies surrounding structuration. Giddens argues that \u201cSocial structure, or \u2018society\u2019, is a constant product of our social activities \u2013 of our talk, our practices, our doings\u201d[3]<\/a> Well then I\u2019m pleased as punch to find that any normal Tuesday in the Rouggly household is more than just rumpled gym clothes, constant cereal pouring, and endless lunch supplies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to feel like my mornings don\u2019t matter, and that I just need to get through them. But I realized today\u2019s did. Today, I took care of my body, I woke up in a house I adore with a family I love even more. I fed my children and let them stay too long in their pajamas. I told my son as he left for school, \u201cRemember that God loves you and so do I. Nothing you could ever do will ever make me stop loving you.\u201d And it hit me today \u2013 I\u2019m creating our<\/em> social structure. I\u2019m privileged to give my children stability and remind them that they are part of the social glue that holds the daily life in the Rouggly household together. And that one day, maybe my sons will be dads, and have regular morning routines in which they make lunches, and go to their gyms and let their own kids stay too long in their pajamas. I\u2019m creating a social structure where my family knows that no matter what we do, be it little or big, nothing we can do will ever make God stop loving us. It\u2019s was a magical Tuesday indeed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ——-<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Anthony Elliot, Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction <\/em>(Abingdon, Oxon. Routledge, 2014), 145.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tish-1-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>The magic of a Tuesday sunk a little bones a little bit more as I read through the Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life\u00a0<\/em>by Tish Harrison Warren for my annotated bibliography due this week. She said, \u201cWe tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work, and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighborhoods, our homes. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life that God has for us?\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n