G K Chesterton on monotony

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

Orthodoxy

Monotony - Fr Considine SJ

"We must fight against our natural dislike of monotony by not casting our thoughts forward and thereby making the temptation stronger, foreseeing that tomorrow will be the same as today, and the next day the same as tomorrow, and so on.

Rather let us throw ourselves heartily inti the work in hand, reminding ourselves that we know very little about the future, or even if we shall have a future, and making each day stand by itself as if it were the last one. God intends us to find life monotonous, for otherwise we should become too fond of it. It is one of His ways of bringing home to us our need of Him, and we should look on it and welcome it as a part of our education. The best cure for monotony in out own lives is to try and make life for others bright and cheerful."
(Words of Encouragement)