Thank God it's Monday!
I get to go to work today.
I am all too aware of the popular version of this phrase, TGIF,
but I'm thankful I get to go to work today.
If you'd prayed over as many prayer requests recently as I have
you would understand. You feel people's frustration from months
of looking for a job as bills run high and hope runs low. A job, a
job, a job, over and over in so many requests.
We often fuss and complain about what so many others are praying
for. We dread it, mock it, condemn it, and curse it.
Yet, it's the thing that puts bread on our table, clothes on our
backs, and a roof over our heads.
Yes, God is the provider of all but He commanded, "Six days
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work." God commanded a job.
It's the thing that we spend most of our waking hours involved
with. It's a shame if we dread what we do most in life.
I've found in business that it's not really the type of job
that makes the real difference, it's the attitude. I've seen
two people side by side, doing the same work, one in paradise,
the other in hell. It was viewpoint, NOT circumstances.
Even when the job changes, the pattern eventually repeats.
When I worked in a warehouse, I loaded boxes off trucks.
We didn't have a forklift, they used hand trucks.
I say they because I carried my boxes by hand. They mocked me.
"Why don't you use a hand truck?" they taunted.
I didn't use one because I saw the boxes as exercise, not work.
I moved more boxes faster by hand than they did with the hand
trucks. When I left work I didn't need to go to the gym. I had
already received my workout and gotten paid for it. It was a joy.
The other fellows left griping about how many trucks came in and
how hard they had to work.
Same boxes - different viewpoints.
I view my job now in the same manner as the boxes.
All honest work has value beyond money. You just have to be
able to see it and appreciate it. Even if you can't see any
value beyond the money, try going without that money for a year.
Boxes, driving, typing, managing, building, cooking, serving,
cleaning, creating, selling, growing, producing or whatever...
Thank God it's Monday.
-- MountainWings - The Daily Inspirational Email
http://www.mountainwings.com
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