Work, for the night is coming,
Work through the morning hours;
Work while the dew is sparkling,
Work 'mid springing flowers;
Work when the day grows brighter,
Work in the glowing sun;
Work, for the night is coming,
When man's work is done.
-Anna Louise Coghill
-Anna Louise Coghill
That poem came to mind when I read
Genesis 2,15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to
work and take care of it.” And then, after the Fall into sin this, “In the
sweat of your face you will eat bread
till you go back to the ground, because you were taken from it. For dust you are
and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3,19.
A person is a creation made to be
busy, to be involved in something useful. And when this is the sort of work that
benefits mankind, the satisfaction is the greater.
Right now there seems to be a sort of uneasiness in our country. We see much joblessness as an economic crisis and we talk about the implications of high unemployment. That isn't wrong, but the point of the matter is this is also spiritual. A job is more than a means to a paycheck. There used to be a saying, “To work is to pray” God made us to be useful to ourselves, and in the world we live in; to contribute to the greater good.
Right now there seems to be a sort of uneasiness in our country. We see much joblessness as an economic crisis and we talk about the implications of high unemployment. That isn't wrong, but the point of the matter is this is also spiritual. A job is more than a means to a paycheck. There used to be a saying, “To work is to pray” God made us to be useful to ourselves, and in the world we live in; to contribute to the greater good.
There is pride and satisfaction in
doing something well, and even more so if it
is something to will make another happy too. To work is to grow, and find
out who you are and what you can do.
Work gives us purpose, stability, integration,
a shared mission. We belong. And when we are unable to work, not able to find a
job, it is sad for a human being. That is the real reason jobs are the no. 1 priority in our domestic life.
We all have heard this saying, “The
devil finds work for idle hands to do.” Because when hands are idle, when there
nothing to keep us occupied, we tend to mischief. Think about that a bit, for
it is so true.
So, this Labor Day weekend, when we
again celebrate the working man, it behooves us to say, “Thank God I have a
job.”
Because God is He “whose mercy
endures forever.”
GPD
9/3/13
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