“Don’t waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last.” (John 6:27 MSG)
What kind of work do you do? How do you make a living? This is one of the most frequent questions people ask when first meeting a person. In a capitalist society, your job and your income determine your value and status.
What is your life work? What gives you purpose? This is a question that most people rarely ask others. Many of us have not even spent any time thinking about this for ourselves. In some instances, a person’s paying job aligns with their life purpose. Or, they are able to appropriate meaning in the way they make a living. Most of us are not that lucky. We go through phases. Our life work can be a series of purposeful packages. The principal labor of our lifetime may not be one obvious thing we can point to. It may not have a significant impact on our surroundings. Perhaps no one will remember any of it. However, knowing that our time on this earth is being spent in a meaningful way brings a great deal of satisfaction.
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