Your work as an act of worship
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8:44AM If you read my blog, and if you follow my twitter feed - see http://www.twitter.com/digitaldion - you will know that I am a proponent of the notion that work can be an act of worship. According to Col 3:23 we can choose to do our work for Christ (both honouring His will for our labour, energy, creativity and time; but also achieving his desired will to encounter people in love and transform systems to reflect the pattern of God's loving Kingdom).
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners -- and I could list a hundred more professions ... A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." - Wislawa Szymborska,from her lecture upon winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the maker of them all. - Proverbs 22:1-2
Reader Comments (2)
You should check out the Catholic's Opus Dei movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei in relation to your post ...
Dion
As someone who is an ordained Minister and who works in a secular role as well most of my ministry is not parish based, but with the people I meet and work with in my work envirnoment. Your question "What is God's intention for your worklife?" is something I constanly ask myself and struggle with.
RevTrev