We read of her struggle not to be irked by another sister when they did laundry together. She knew that she herself was irksome for the other. Somehow they got the laundry done and ended up in heaven. Such trials seem made to our scale, but they are no less chiefly inner. It is the how and the why and not just the scrubbing that make the act what it morally or spiritually is.
Thought is the activity of a soul that animates a body that needs clean clothes from time to time.
Perhaps we should put out minds to ridding them of pop psychology, the tendency to look for other than responsible causes for our acts. Let's give ourselves and other sinners credit or blame for doing what we do. That's our only hope for doing better before it's too late.