Reflections on Work
I’ve been muddling through this for a while now, trying to figure out where my thinking is heading on the topic of work.
There are numerous notions I’m trying to grapple with. If you’re interested then …
Check it out here: Reflections on Work.
And for what it’s worth, here are some thoughts from Calvin:
… the Lord bids each one of us in all life’s actions to look to his calling. For He knows with what great restlessness human nature flames, with what fickleness it is borne hither and thither, how its ambition longs to embrace various things at once. Therefore, lest through our stupidity and rashness everything be turned topsy-turvy, he has appointed duties for every man in his particular way of life. … It is enough if we know that the Lord’s calling is in everything the beginning and foundation of well-doing. And if there is anyone who will not direct himself to it, he will never hold to the straight path in his duties. (Institutes of the Christian Religion. 3.10.6)