i just read this piece written by pastor tim keller and i really liked it. i will copy it below, as well as include a website address at the bottom in case you would like to know more about keller and/or the church he pastors and leads
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I read something this morning at Dana Street Roasting Company in Mountain View that I really liked. It is from the book
Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation,
by William Placher.
The chapter that I enjoyed was by a British writer
by the name of Dorothy Sayers. (*For more on her life, go to:
http://www.sayers.org.uk/dorothy.html.)
The chapter title is, "Vocation in Work", and it was written in 1942...in the middle of WWII. I would like to share with you what Sayers wrote about a certain group of workers who "have never...altogether abandoned the divine conception of what work ought to be." Although she is writing about artists, I, too, identify with this group of workers. As a pastor, I have always felt like "I must contrive to make money so that I may live to work."
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