Thursday, December 1, 2011

Today's Meditation: On Profit and Toil

A meditation for modern man From Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3: 9-13.

Pieta' by Michelangelo
What profit have workers from their toil?


I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about.

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless* into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
I recognized that there is nothing better than to rejoice and to do well during life.
Moreover, that all can eat and drink and enjoy the good of all their toil—this is a gift of God.
Tim's comment:  In viewing our daily work, put it into context - make it holy work as we do not all have the talent of Michelangelo.  So, rejoice and do well.

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