Greetings Dear Reader,
Almost all of us have to work. Too many of us work at jobs about which we
are not passionate. Some of us fortunate
few get to work at jobs we love. Then
there are the ones who make work their god.
For a time I was obsessed with work and making money. It was perhaps the lowest point in my journey
with Christ. There were other extreme
contributing factors but I still chose to make work my god for a time.
I recently had dinner with a friend who has made his work is
god. During the meal he was more in
touch with his phone and afterhours messages than our opportunity to catch up
with each other. As I listened to his
interaction about work I realized that he did not cover anything that could not
have waited.
We create the expectation that work can consume all our time
or we have it created for us. It is a
choice we allow either way. I have made
the mental choice to hang up work when I leave.
There are rare times when it must bleed over into the non-working hours
but I guard that carefully.
We work too much in our culture. Ir is not that work is not important but we
devote too much of our energy to it. We
use too little of our allowed vacation time.
We devote too much of our energy to things that do not serve who we
are.
We are to work but we are also to celebrate, vacate, and
rest. The Father has given us the
ability to work. We must always do so in
balance. Whenever I am tempted to pursue
money over good work or put work ahead of other obligations I remember my
Grandfather’s example. He worked when it
was time to work and rested when it was time to rest. When it comes to what we do for work he also
had some great wisdom. “Do what you love
and the money will come.”
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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