Working Harder
Journal 2005 02 24
Working Harder
Fourth day in a row of 30+ weather allows the men to free the larger boat from the ice. Lots of hard work is noted in the journals. And these guys knew what hard work was. Even more, we know just how much hard work is yet ahead of them.
How hard do we work? The easy quip and sharp tongue replies, “Not very”. But is that really the case?
If I think I’m working hard I just let my memory roll back to the days of hanging off the back of a garbage truck hustling through a particularly tough day. That was hard work. Or I remember running lines during basketball practice with my lungs on fire and my legs burning and fighting to get a moments rest. That was hard work. Or laboring at 12,000 feet to gain a mountaintop in Colorado in pursuit of the very same animals Lewis and Clark sought for food.
How many of us sweat hard at work? How many of us are physically exhausted from all out physical requirements of work? Most people I know work pretty darn hard and understand hard work. Do most of us understand the physical exertion of daily hard work? Not in our current economy and culture. Our hard work takes on another guise.
Solomon tells us, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.” Ecclesiastes 9:10. We are called to work hard during this life. I believe we were made to physically work hard in pursuit of the work God sets before us to accomplish. If we aren’t exerting ourselves physically, that is when stress begins to creep in and attempt to overtake our pursuit of work with all our might. We must find a way to “work hard” while we can and in that hard working fulfill what God has set in front of us to complete.
If our day doesn’t include physical exertion we need to look for ways to build it in. Walking the dog, working in the garden, clearing the back forty, going to the “Y”, Curves, 24 Hour Fitness, and the like exist because we need them to complete not just our lives, but our work!
I’m going to work harder today.
Working Harder
Fourth day in a row of 30+ weather allows the men to free the larger boat from the ice. Lots of hard work is noted in the journals. And these guys knew what hard work was. Even more, we know just how much hard work is yet ahead of them.
How hard do we work? The easy quip and sharp tongue replies, “Not very”. But is that really the case?
If I think I’m working hard I just let my memory roll back to the days of hanging off the back of a garbage truck hustling through a particularly tough day. That was hard work. Or I remember running lines during basketball practice with my lungs on fire and my legs burning and fighting to get a moments rest. That was hard work. Or laboring at 12,000 feet to gain a mountaintop in Colorado in pursuit of the very same animals Lewis and Clark sought for food.
How many of us sweat hard at work? How many of us are physically exhausted from all out physical requirements of work? Most people I know work pretty darn hard and understand hard work. Do most of us understand the physical exertion of daily hard work? Not in our current economy and culture. Our hard work takes on another guise.
Solomon tells us, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.” Ecclesiastes 9:10. We are called to work hard during this life. I believe we were made to physically work hard in pursuit of the work God sets before us to accomplish. If we aren’t exerting ourselves physically, that is when stress begins to creep in and attempt to overtake our pursuit of work with all our might. We must find a way to “work hard” while we can and in that hard working fulfill what God has set in front of us to complete.
If our day doesn’t include physical exertion we need to look for ways to build it in. Walking the dog, working in the garden, clearing the back forty, going to the “Y”, Curves, 24 Hour Fitness, and the like exist because we need them to complete not just our lives, but our work!
I’m going to work harder today.
posted by @2007 Dick Cinkovich | 11:23 PM
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