Posted on 02/26/2025 6:15:26 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
In Genesis 2, we read about how God wants us to work. Verse 15, “And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and keep it.” Gardening, farm work, yard work.
In 1 Corinthians 10 and Colossians 3, we’re told that whatever we do, we are to work heartily and diligently, as if we’re working for the Lord and not for men. And in 2 Thessalonians 3, we read that if anyone is not willing to work, then he should not be allowed to eat.
Work is essential, not just for us to earn a living, but also for our own mental and spiritual wellbeing. The satisfaction of a job well done really can’t compare to anything else. Our work, when we do it well, can bring us great happiness and joy — even the hardest of work. Through our work, we can transform useless things into useful ones. We can restore order out of chaos. We can even create things that didn’t exist before, all through our work.
What about the opposite?
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He is right of course. Even Freud said, mental health meant “the ability to love and to work.”
Only if I am getting paid what I am worth and not having to worry about my job going to a foreigner.
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Pimping your blog is hard work.
I spent my career in IT (retired four years ago) and often, when looking at all the fat people sitting at their desks eating snacks would say, “we were designed as gardiners, not cubical rats. Exercise is fun and very rewarding.
I’m 71 and had open heart surgery two years ago. It was due to a birth defect (two flap aortic valve). I spent a major part of my career bicycling to my job sites (I was a contractor and worked for a total of 19 companies). After the surgery they did a bunch of ultra-sounds all over my body. They found my arteries clear, my liver in shockingly good condition, etc.
I see this world a bit like a video game like “call of duty”. You don’t play a game like that so your character can sit around playing cards or waiting for your HUMV getting repaird. You expect to use that body you were given to play the game.
And that is how I see this life. God placed me in this amazing biological machine. It is self repairing, self replicating, and designed specifically to live on this particular planet. And it brings great joy to use it. Being refueling, procreating, gardening, interacting with other people, and just exercising it both physically and mentally.
And most important is enjoying a relationship with he who created you and this place in which you live. And all of the above is the secret to a long and healthy (physically and emotionally) life. And when it’s over, it gets even better!
Good one; he needs to graduate to the Robert Barron model: “Buy my book”.
Yes it is. Too bad the hardest thing humans work at is figuring out how to not work.
As my Rabbi said, “Man is made to work.”
bkmk
Retired pipefitter. My knees, vertebrae, shoulders and hands are keenly aware.
“Only if I am getting paid what I am worth”
You have to learn to think like the new generation...
I would never accept a job working for such a paltry amount.
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Excellent article on work ethic. Worth reading the whole thing.
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