Over the last few weeks, I’ve been chastised by many, many friends
and family for working too hard and too many hours. While there certainly are days when I feel
exhausted, I love my job. It’s fun. I can work as hard as I want or goof off some
days—as long as the work gets done.
I work very closely with my boss, spending most days traveling from
location to location, helping the general managers and their teams become more
productive. We use a lot of humor and “shtick”
to help allay the intimidation a visit from a company superior can bring. We were at a location yesterday where we
haven’t placed a GM yet. The location is
small, and being run day to day by a young man who is going places in this
company. Anyway, Todd (my boss) and I
were in the middle of one of our usual give and take “dog and pony shows” when
the kid says “You guys ought to go on the road!
This is very good stuff!” We
laughed it off of course, because we know it’s just banter between two very
good friends that makes the workday shorter.
Today was the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker. In reading the Scriptures and some
meditations a thought occurred to me. Work
done with love and out of love (sometimes accompanied with humor) can be one of
our most powerful means we have to speak of Jesus in this lost and darkening
world. When it comes right down to it, I think I love my job most because it is a service that helps make peoples' lives better.
How wonderful it is that our daily work can be a means for our
salvation! Work done for the glory and honor of God is just that -- a means for
our salvation!
Let us pray that like St. Joseph, the Worker, our daily work may be
done with humility, love and gratitude for the coming kingdom of God among us. I’m sure he wouldn’t begrudge us if we use a
little good-natured humor along the way.
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