Positive Daily Inspiration – August 17, 2022 – Enjoy Your Work

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1

Jesus said, “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28, 29, 30

I have ALWAYS been thankful that I absolutely LOVE my work.

I ask you to remember the classic Disney movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

There is a scene in the movie where the seven dwarfs are singing as they’re preparing to go to their jobs. The song contains the words “HI HO HI HO! It’s off to work we go.” The happy little men then dance off to work.

Do you dance and sing on your way to your job? Or are you filled with unhappiness and anxiety? Americans are filled with so much unhappiness and anxiety on Monday mornings, that between the hours of 7 AM to noon, it has become the number one time for heart attacks.

The dwarfs obviously loved their work. Too many people work at jobs that they hate just to pay their bills. Their J.O.B. stands for “Just Over Broke” in their lives.

I saw a bumper sticker on a car recently that turned around the words of the dwarfs’ happy song. The bumper sticker said “I owe. I owe. It’s off to work I go.”

Remember the classic 1950s song by Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons?”

The song contains a line sung over and over again “I owe my soul to the company store.” This indicated that no matter how hard the coal miner worked he could not get ahead. Perhaps you feel this way too.

As a society we are working harder and harder and getting less and less. I am not talking about financial return I am talking about a happiness and a satisfaction return. We are definitely doing more but we are not “human doings” we are “human beings.” As a “being” you have to be “alive”

in your life. Too many people go to work like zombies. “Doing” must be secondary to “being.”

If you aren’t happy and excited about your job, it might be time to seek to new direction. That new direction may be a new job, or a new attitude towards the present one.

The dwarfs loved their work and perhaps that is the key.

I used to know a man who counseled with me, who hated his job and constantly talked about how much he hated it. He was a plumber and throughout his day he would constantly complain to himself about how much he hated his job. The hate and complaint had become a habit, and he had taught himself to despise his work.

I asked him to do an experiment over a thirty-day period. The next Monday morning he went to work with God as his partner. Instead of talking to himself about how much he hated doing each little task, he talked to himself saying repeatedly how much he loved his job and what he was doing in the moment.

At first, he thought it was silly, but then, he started to notice that he was not fatigued at the end of the day. By the third day, time was passing so quickly that he was shocked at how quickly the day was over. He reluctantly admitted that he was having fun doing what he used the hate.

Within 30 days, he had changed so much that his employers came to him and gave him a very large promotion and a substantial raise in pay. But his biggest promotion was inside of himself because he raised his thinking about what he was doing. He prayed constantly and affirmed that God’s love was coming through him. He became a human “being” instead of an unhappy human “doing”.

You are NOT defined by what you do; you are defined by “HOW” you do it. Decide with me to live an experiment in spirituality. Love every aspect of the work that you do. If you wish to have new employment, instead of hating your way out of your current situation, try loving your way out.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, as I rest from my work, I pray that You will renew my mind and body to prepare me for the great victories ahead.

I thank You God!

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I give myself a break today, I let go and I let God work through me.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” Larry McMurtry

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Christopher Ian Chenoweth