Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
~George MacDonald, Circa 1850; Sacred Idleness
Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God’s work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it… Some, again ,accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it cannot be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow, in which no work can be done any more than in yesterday.
The Holy Present!
~George MacDonald, Easy Work
I learned that it was not myself but only my shadow that I had lost. I learned that it is better…for a proud man to fall and be humbled than to hold up his head in pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barley be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.
~George MacDonald, The Loss of the Shadow
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I never thought I would have my very own unemployment line stories to share; but after nearly six months of collecting the precious funds and several trips to the dispute resolution center to keep the cash flowing… I now have the humbling experience of financial neediness in my recent past, present situation, and short term future… and I am pretty sure it is one of the best things that have ever happened to me.
I am getting on my feet and figuring out how to run a business, 2009 actually looks to be quite promising. This promise does come with a fair amount of anxiety, but I am getting better at recognizing the rightful source of each day’s anxiety and adjusting my perspective accordingly. Some days there is nothing to shake a stick at, and you just have to chalk it up to the fear of the unknown. Other days are especially good, and it is only appropriate to be thankful…
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I have been working in roughly the same cubicle space for about the past 5 years. I actually don’t mind it, I would even say that I find it “cozie”… in a slightly complacent sort of way.
Recently the network connection at my cubicle, indeed the whole west side of the building, has been on the fritz… one of those random ghost problems that only seems to surface when you have managed to forget about the possibility of it coming back. I was in the middle of a project with a deadline, and instead of waiting for a solution from the ever diligent (yet admittedly perplexed) IT staff… I decided to move my work space to the other side of the building.
What happened to be available was the largest conference room in the office, normally seats about 74-100 employees. For the past few days it has seated one employee… me.
From the moment I sat down at my freshly configured work space, I was overwhelmingly satisfied with my new environment. My new cubicle is about 40 times the size of my old one, and thats saying something… my employer does not skimp on even the regular cubicle. But this is whole new universe of work space. The only location more spacious would be to transplant myself outside on the patio. Not only is it larger, but I am situated such that I can actually look out the window… all 70 feet of it. Its an amazing experience…. I don’t know if I have ever had such a beautiful view to accompany the peripheral vision of my working line of site.
Oh ya… the network connection is much faster in here too…
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