This Task

I read this in Keep a Quiet Heart last night:

As Baron Von Hugel said, "The chain of cause and effect which makes up human life, is bisected at every point by a vertical line relating us and all we do to God." This is what He has given us to do, this task here on this earth, not the task we aspired to do, but this one (Elisabeth Elliot, 227).

Good words for my friends who begin a stem cell transplant today, and for the mother of three little ones who feels helpless to accomplish anything of a productive nature, and for me, as I plug away at the little tasks that fall next on the list.