Sunday, May 18, 2008

Deep Gladness, Deep Hunger

"...The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement (a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work is being a doctor in a leper colony, you have probably met (b), but if most of the time you're bored and depressed by it, the chances are you haven't only bypassed (a) but probably aren't helping your patients much either....The piece God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
(Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC)

Let us find our deep gladness in what we do everyday to meet the world's deep hunger..
In whatever we do, we do it for God's glory.
Let us be happy with our work we do everyday,
so we can be a blessing to others.

We may not be the ones who are in the action field of disasters and poverties,
but we can still make a difference in what we do everyday.

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