Category Archives: Work

Can You Enjoy Hard Work?

In Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes: “I took pleasure in all my struggles.” Ecclesiastes 2:10. Have you ever stopped in the middle of hard work and caught yourself enjoying it? A friend of mine was on the rowing team at Rutgers University and worked out so hard that throwing up was an everyday thing. And one day,Continue reading “Can You Enjoy Hard Work?”

Wilderness Survival.

Junior-high Me owned a book entitled “WILDERNESS SURVIVAL.” I was obsessed; I wanted all the survival skills: Dig a hole, fill it with chopped-up green plants, cover it with a plastic tarp.  Set a stone in the center to weigh down the plastic, leave a can beneath the stone.  Why? Because as the plants dry,Continue reading “Wilderness Survival.”

Surprise! Your Work is a Gift.

As a child, I was sometimes surprised by negative attitudes adults had about work.  First, there were the Garfield cartoons everywhere: “I hate Mondays!”  Then in the lunchroom, there was a calendar on the wall in the serving line and at the end of every day a cafeteria worker would put a huge “X” throughContinue reading “Surprise! Your Work is a Gift.”

The Gift of Work. Numbers 18:7.

People sometimes think God cursed us by making us work. As evidence, they cite Genesis 3:17-19, wherein God tells Adam he will have to work the ground and it will give him thorns and thistles, and “by the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread.” However, Adam’s work was NOT part of theContinue reading “The Gift of Work. Numbers 18:7.”