ALL IN A DAY's WORK
Sharing Thoughts On Work
Sometimes we feel burdened by WORK.. in the office or at home.
The following are some excerpts from the writings of the Blessed Josemaria Escriva which I wish to share in this most difficult times:
Working for GOD!
Many people begin, but few finish. And we, who are trying to behave as God's children, have to be among those few. Remember that only work that is well done and lovingly completed deserves the praise of the Lord...it is no good offering to God something that is less than perfect than our poor human limitations permit... "Thou shalt not offer anything that is faulty because it would not be worthy of Him". For this reason, the work of each one of us, the activities that take up our time and energy, must be an offering worthy of our Creator. It must be a work of God that is done for God: in short a task that is complete and faultless.
Work as a participation in God's Creative Power
From the beginnin of creation man has had to work...We must be convinced therefore that work is a magnificent reality and that it has been imposed on us as an inexorable law which, one way or another binds everyone, even though some may try to seek exemption from it... Man's duty to work is not a consequence of original sin, nor is it just a discovery of modern times. It is an indespensable means which God has entrusted to us here on this earth. It is meant to fill out our days and make us sharers in God's creative power...Now you will understand even better that if anyone among you didn't love work, his own particular job; if he didn't feel sincerely committed to some noble occupation in this world so as to sanctify it, or if he were to lack a professional vocation, then that person would never understand the supernatural substance ... for the very good reason that he would be lacking an indispensable condition for doing so: that of being a worker.
..."Christ has appointed us to be like lamps, so as to be teachers to others; to act as leaven; to live like angels among men, like adults among children, like spiritual beings among the merely rational; to be seed and to yield fruit. There would be no need of speaking if our lives shone in this way. Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for them. There would not be a single pagan left if we were truly christian.."
Sharing Thoughts On Work
Sometimes we feel burdened by WORK.. in the office or at home.
The following are some excerpts from the writings of the Blessed Josemaria Escriva which I wish to share in this most difficult times:
Working for GOD!
Many people begin, but few finish. And we, who are trying to behave as God's children, have to be among those few. Remember that only work that is well done and lovingly completed deserves the praise of the Lord...it is no good offering to God something that is less than perfect than our poor human limitations permit... "Thou shalt not offer anything that is faulty because it would not be worthy of Him". For this reason, the work of each one of us, the activities that take up our time and energy, must be an offering worthy of our Creator. It must be a work of God that is done for God: in short a task that is complete and faultless.
Work as a participation in God's Creative Power
From the beginnin of creation man has had to work...We must be convinced therefore that work is a magnificent reality and that it has been imposed on us as an inexorable law which, one way or another binds everyone, even though some may try to seek exemption from it... Man's duty to work is not a consequence of original sin, nor is it just a discovery of modern times. It is an indespensable means which God has entrusted to us here on this earth. It is meant to fill out our days and make us sharers in God's creative power...Now you will understand even better that if anyone among you didn't love work, his own particular job; if he didn't feel sincerely committed to some noble occupation in this world so as to sanctify it, or if he were to lack a professional vocation, then that person would never understand the supernatural substance ... for the very good reason that he would be lacking an indispensable condition for doing so: that of being a worker.
..."Christ has appointed us to be like lamps, so as to be teachers to others; to act as leaven; to live like angels among men, like adults among children, like spiritual beings among the merely rational; to be seed and to yield fruit. There would be no need of speaking if our lives shone in this way. Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for them. There would not be a single pagan left if we were truly christian.."