When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed are standing about you and watching.
Work is love made visible.
Poem by Kahlil Gibran – He was a Lebanese- American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher best known for his book The Prophet (1883 -1931)
REFLECTION:
Do you love your work?
Or, do you view your work as a curse or a misfortune?
How can you weave, build, sow love into your work?