Working Well

‘Happy the servant if his master’s arrival finds him at his employment. Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions.’ Matthew 24:46-47

Life is a process through which we can find out who we are and what we are about. This is the basis of an expanding industry. Self evidently, the seed of self knowledge exists within each one of us. Happy indeed those who bring that seed to harvest.

Having just accepted employment at Waverley Abbey, the question presents itself back to me: What is my work? I’m encouraged by the words of St Anthony, one of the desert Fathers, who said, “Everyday I say to myself -Today I will begin”.

Contribution

My best work is when I perceive my contribution through the eyes of Jesus. For my lasting work can only be that born of God. The rest is hay and stubble; it cannot survive.

So in truth my employment has not changed, despite signing a new contract and arriving at a new place of work. I continue as friend and friar to journey towards God’s heart whilst engaging in mission. It’s just that the context in which I express this is determined by my employer. 

Life Investment

Happy indeed am I, for I continue with all I have invested in to date as I plough a fresh furrow; one cut into the same field God has invited me to farm for life.

I am the coherence at the centre of my life and call. As I respond to God, so I am empowered to realise the life of God in whatever context I am placed. Life changes, yet I am a permanent, if continually developing, expression of God. Whatever landscape I arrive into, may God find me, and you, at our proper employment. This is that for which we have been created and called. It lays the firm foundations for our forever future.

PRAYER: O Lord, let me never lose sight of my true employment. Today I will begin. Amen

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