Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
Audience of One
In the midst of the unfolding crisis with work – a fundamentally spiritual problem – it seems to me that we desperately need new cultural metaphors to describe labour. What, actually, is this thing called “work”? Why do we do it? What does it afford us? What can’t it afford us?
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
God, he said, is like a great symphony in which we must all play our individual parts. None of us can hear the whole; none of us is suited to play all the parts. We must be willing to accept the limitations of the instrument we have been given and to offer up our voice as part of the great and unimaginable creation that is the voice of God.
Kent Nerburn • Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Living in the Spirit of the Prayer of St. Francis
Marva Dawn, author of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly,