Making Work a Labour of Love
Sibling Lawrence said in his Practicing the Presence of God, that "GOD... respects not the enormity of the work, but rather the affection with which it is performed." (Fourth Conversation)
We may know this is valid in the attention to our own particular experience of the act of the Presence of God: that when we cleanse aspiration, and center rather around doing what little things we do with the glory of doing them for Him just, we do encounter His veritable Presence.
And after that we return to the irrepressible reality: work is hard, a lot of it goes undervalued, and the multipronged requests of the world push us clean into the hecticness of depression too often to genuinely reflect. As Richard Ashcroft of The Verve says in their tune, Bittersweet Symphony (1997), "... it's a battle. Life's a battle. Also, Monday morning might be a battle for a great deal of you in a vocation that you scorn, working for a supervisor that you loathe; a slave to cash, then amazing. God favor ya."
Everybody, without exception, has a similar living test to accommodate: to appreciate work. For life to go well we should work. We can't escape it. Also, it's not simply paid work that causes us to regret our lives; it's those family, group and volunteer parts we can't escape or that we overcommitted ourselves to. By one means or another, we have to make these assignments feel like they're works of adoration, in the event that we wish to do them well for others, and appreciate them ourselves.
Sibling Lawrence's quote makes a difference. On the off chance that we do each errand with affection as we perform them, God will fill us with His Presence to an ever increasing extent.
It takes bravery to continue going when carrying on with the timetable of life appears to be lethal. In the event that we separate our minutes, live at the time, appreciate it as well as can be expected, recollecting God's there with us, then we make drudgery into delight.
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