WORK

"Let us, then, be up and doing..."

                                                              Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is Monday morning and I am at my desk ready to begin my work day...as I look around this morning there is much work that calls to me, waiting to be done. Sometimes we move through our days just "up and doing", like Longfellow says, yet we can give the things we do, a quality unique to us, if we pay attention. Actually the quality is always unique to us with or without our attention. Yikes!

It is the essence of our Soul that we impart to our daily work. We were all born of the same God, the God of love...how is it that we sometimes get so far away from this fact? How do we lose ourselves "just up and doing"? I know that Longfellow meant for us to  make plans to do things, and the planning and the doing, increase our energy...it is true that we need things to look forward to and work to accomplish in order to be fulfilled. And it is also true, that sometimes, we only need to relax into our being and allow the God of the Universe to fill us.

My work teaches me to make a plan then take steps to activate the plan. While I go about my work I occasionally veer off the path and learn many things about my Spirit...where am I holding myself back? Why do I think there is only one way to tackle a task? I know that in everything I do God/the essence of my Soul whispers lessons for me to learn. I listen closely and continue to grow.

Maybe everything is not a lesson...maybe we are here just to be. 

Maybe that is true for others but learning the lessons of Spirit seems to be the reason for my life. It has been a life long learning journey...I pray and meditate and read and worship and still life unfolds in ways that force me inside..asking for answers...maybe my learning curve is large. One lesson that I have learned is that God/Spirit is always here with me. Always. Loving me. Guiding me. For that I am grateful.

Now, to my daily work...