"Love your work"

"Love Your Work"

"Work to become, not to acquire!"

Don't work too hard to give your loved one's the best of everything,

Instead make a greater effort to give them the best of yourself

because you are their best!

Work has been the subject of many negative criticisms. It's been called an interruption of weekends, a necessary evil, an obnoxious option, so forth and so on. But probably the worst is a material from a wise guy who compares work with life in prison. Submitted by Christopher Kline in his article entitled "Life in Prison versus A Full Time Job." listen to what he has to say:

* In prison, they spend the majority of their time in an eight foot by ten foot cell. At work, they spend most of the time in a six by eight cubicle.

* In prison, they get three meals a day. at work, they only get a break for one meal and they have to pay for that.

* In prison, you get time off for good behavior. at work, they get reward for good behavior with more work.

* At work, they must wear an ID badge at all times. In prison they provide you with clothing with the ID conveniently sewn onto the clothes.

* At work, there is a dress standard,but they have to buy their own clothes. In prison, there is a dress standard, but they supply the clothes.

* At work, they must carry around security card and unlock and open all the doors by themselves. In prison, a guard locks and unlocks all the doors.

* In prison, they can watch TV and play games. At work, they can get fired for watching TV and playing games.

* In prison, they will pay their way through school to learn a new career and give them a time to do it. At work, they pay for your education, but you must do it on your own time.

* In prison, they have exercise rooms that they allow you to use almost whenever you want. At work, we have an exercise room that you can use, but it must be on your time.

* In prison, they can fall asleep on the job and no serious consequences comes from that actions. At work, if we fall asleep on the job, we get suspended.

* In prison, they ball and chain you when you have to go somewhere. At work, you are just ball and chained.

* In prison, you have full medical coverage with no deductibles. At work, you get partial coverage and pay all deductibles.

* In prison, all expenses are paid by the taxpayer,with no work on their part. At work, you get to pay all the expenses to go to work, and then deduct the taxes from your salary to pay for the prisoners.

I don't know what the writer's trying to say,but if he's implying that committing a crime and spending the rest of your life in prison is better than being chained to an office table, sorry, but thats not my cup of tea.

You might be surprised to know that there are actually a multitude of people who feel this way. They are helplessly chained to their work. Given the choice they would rather buy a lotto ticket,win the prize and retire at the age of twenty six, But then, here's the real story.

Work is not only a means by which we earn a living. It is a means by which we earn how to live. It provides us with countless opportunity to build up that most important part of the human being, the inward part called character. Work provides us with the opportunity to meet new friends, learn life experiences and even teaches us to avoid certain kinds of people. Work gives us the blessed opportunity to be productive with our hands. To contribute to society, to make this world a little better. In short, work gives us values as human beings because it is an expression of God's glorious creative feature, the ability to create and the ability to be channels of blessings for others, too.

The secret of this: one's perspective of work becomes healthy the moment he removes his focus on himself and start looking at the concerns of others. As difficult as it may seem, work, indeed, is a blessing from God.

The choice is yours to make. You can either choose to make work a life imprisonment sentence or you can choose to make a work wonderful means to live. I don't know about you,but I certainly choose work to be the means of serving God and serving man. And I certainly hope this would be your perspective,too.