Not Just a 9 to 5
We often see work as a 40-hour necessity where our value is quantified in paychecks. We try to leave work at work, and keep our personal life separate. But what if this understanding of work is wrong?
Ann Voskamp, NY Times best-selling author, explores avodah, the ancient Hebrew understanding of work, and how it can reshape our lives...
(SOURCE: http://www.qideas.org/blog/do-you-feel-broken-and-fragmented.aspx)
From the Grave of Disappointment
Have you ever wondered why joy is so hard… so temporary…
Why?
For such a simple thing why is it so unnatural… evasive.
What We Were Made For
“A flower never wonders what it’s supposed to do…it simply looks beautiful, it provides nectar and it receives pollen…that’s what it does. A bee does not wake up in the morning and say, ‘You know, this whole honey making business is just not very life-giving for me anymore. I really just feel like, maybe I should be doing something else. Maybe I’ll take a class on spinning webs so that I can catch insects…
A bee never asks that question. A bee simply wakes up in the morning and knows that it’s purpose is simply to pollinate that flower, extract that nectar and make honey. ‘That’s what I do, that’s what I was made for, I don’t question it, I don’t doubt it and it was never a mystery to me, I just knew it all along.’”
Why is it that lower forms of creation get the blueprint? They do exactly what they’re supposed to do with no need to be told. They just know and then they act. Yet for us high forms of creation, humans made in the image of God, there exists the need to be told what we’re supposed to do.
(Hipps, S., 2010)
Building Blocks - Purpose
We often talk about ‘building of faith’… but what does this look like?
Reflecting on my only life I discover the question really goes straight to the core… simply because it revolves around that which is at the core – my purpose.
Now if I was to ask who had a clearly defined purpose in life who could confidently put there hand up and say yes….
I suppose a more general question would be who thinks it is important?
Well hopefully in what I briefly share I am able to stir some thought and challenge you as God as been challenging me... Because our purpose (the why) transpires to vision (the where) shaping the mission (the how to) which ultimately determines values (how I live out everyday).
