Live to Work or Work to Live

What is it to work? Do you want to contribute to the betterment of humankind? Is work only for the purpose of making money? Do you want to be known for what you have done? Is the sense of accomplishment the main draw to why you work?

I ask YOU who are reading this to respond and/or show up on Thursday Night, do you feel zapped and dead from your work or are you energized? Now, whatever your answer is, ask WHY? I want to know!

In this system of capitalism we live, work and have our being in, there is one driving force that is so powerful, so absolutely pervasive, that no matter what side of the political coin you are on, or no matter how sensitive you are to other’s needs, or how spiritual you are, that it bends and warps minds to meet it’s objective regardless of your best intentions.

What is it? Some call it greed, others call it the bottom line, and still others call it making a living. I call it ME First! Yet the result is the same, be productive or get fired! What have you done for me lately? If you can’t get the job done then don’t let the door smack ya where the good Lord cracked ya! Adios!! Good bye and good luck! You suck! Next!

Business demands the fastest and the best to become faster and better. This makes people insecure and it also makes people come up with sayings like “C.Y.O.A.” (if you don’t know what that means I’ll tell you, just ask.)

Is this what you want?

Work is necessary, right? But what about the purpose behind work? Are we hitting it or missing it? In the book of Genesis we are shown how work began. It had purpose; it had joy and true accomplishment. Then we see how it becomes a few paragraphs later, hard, toiling and burdensome. Why?

When the work was good was God concerned with time? Was God looking at Adam then looking at his watch? When work became, well you know "work" was God concerned with time? Was He looking at his watch and looking at Adam?

Is this how work should be? Is this how we are resigned to live? Or can we bust out of this trap? I think we can, but I think it depends upon a few important things I would like to talk about this Thursday.