O God of all humanity,
Too often we approach our work as an onerous task and not a privilege, a
responsibility, but not an honor. Kahil Gibran expounded on the concept of what it
means when work is seen instead as a "labor of love." He wrote:
"And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart
even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection,
even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness
and reap the harvest with joy,
even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion
with a breath of your spirit."
When we work without passion, the task become drudgery, and our work less
effective. But when we put ourselves into our work, and when we remember for
whom the buildings are being built, the bills being written for, the lives that are
affected and bettered by the labor of our hands and our hearts, then the work we do
becomes transformed, it becomes elevated because we have put ourselves into the
task.
May it be the will of our Creator that every task we undertake become a labor of
love, inspired by those who we have vowed to serve. May this be God`s will.
Amen.
