08/18/2010 - Daily Prayer

Kahil Gibran expounded on the concept of what is 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, when we remember for whom the buildings are built, the bills being written for, the lives that are affected and bettered by the labor of our hands and our hearts, 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 pledged to serve. May this be God’s will. Amen.