Amy Jackson-Duty and Delight

I get tired in just thinking about the duties that I have to preform in day to day life. Writing papers, cleaning, working, going to class have become tasks that I do without really enjoying. When something is mandatory I am quick to think it means I probably will not want to do it. Hence the reason it is mandatory, people try to get out of doing these things. I think there are things in life that we make mandatory. For example, I was reading Lewis' The Four Loves the other night. I was not specifically reading it for class, I was just interested in it. I was enjoying it. However, now when I sit down to write a blog and start to read a section from the book I found myself not enjoying it as much. Even though the text is the same and it still means something to me, I instantly wanted to do something else. It became a duty. Can I not delight in my duties? Christianity is the merging of these two things. It is finding delight in the duty that we are called to. One day my sin is a duty, something I am struggling to stop. The next day, by following God, my desire for sin changes. I do not want to commit the sin anymore. Therefore, my duty to not sin turns into delight. It is still a duty, but it brings me joy. I delight in obeying God's commands. Can this carry over into the more mundane aspects of life? Can I write a blog about The Four Loves and still enjoy reading it? I think this is what we were designed to be like. To not separate the spiritual from the everyday things. We should delight in knowing that God gets glory in whatever we do if we do it to serve Him.