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Work as Prayer: Five Suggestions

Five suggestions for finding Christian meaning in my work:

1. Think of my work as a response to a call from God.
2. Look for the good and make an effort to increase it, while at the same time, holding down the bad. Try to look at work as helping God complete his creation, as something God wants to have done.
3. Help to bring Christ and his values to a less than Christian place of employment.
4. Think of working as sharing in the sacrifice of Jesus. "Am I, like Jesus, laying down my life by my work?"
5. Look for the fruits of my work as a sign of my love.

(Adapted from "The Work of the Lord" by Art Winter, Praying, No. 8, August 1985, p. 2)