[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Ah, unhappy, storm-tossed soul, with none to comfort you: [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]I will make garnets your building-stones, [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]and sapphires your foundations. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]I will build your towers with rubies, [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]your gates with precious stones, [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]your border with gems… (Isaiah 54:11-12)[/FONT]
While work can be ennobling, it can also be a chore or drudgery,
and can dehumanise us.
For the most part, I would suggest, we do not experience work
as something that flows from us spontaneously,
but rather as something imposed on us.
Today, houses are often far removed from places of work,
separated by one or more hours of heavy traffic.
It's not easy for today's Christian to find God in her/his work.
For the vast majority work is impersonal
- it is repetitive, boring, monotonous.
Those who work on the factory line rarely see the finished product.
"Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth."
(Guardian of the Redeemer - Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II).