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Spirituality at work! Practice Expressing spirituality at work through your career calling, ethics, economic justice, spiritual practices, and spiritual values. Practicing Spirituality at work helps us to find meaning, purpose, and joy in our own workdays. We've discovered that our work can be a gate to spiritual practice, helping us feel our connections to the sacred, to our deepest selves, and to the whole Creation. But we need to approach it with that intention. The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth. Join us in learning how you can find spirituality at work by doing the inner work necessary to make your outer work more meaningful!
 

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Spirituality at work suggests that there be more to work than just survival.

The fear is about losing our job and having to do more with less. And the emergence of spirituality at work points to the desire that there be more to work than just survival. We yearn for work to be a place in which we both experience and express our deep soul and spirit.

Spirituality at work means that you translate your basic beliefs into your daily work life. All human beings are the loving children of the same God. There ought to be a common linkage of love among them all. Kindness, patience, honesty and generosity are basic spiritual qualities and are the essence of all human beings. Making every effort to practice these qualities at work is spirituality. You treat people with kindness and respect. You try to be patient with irregularities and when necessary punish people from an attitude of love and understanding. Be as generous as possible with your time, money, ideas and love.

How do we bring spirituality into a work place where aggression is so valued, admired and rewarded?

While no one likes to feel marginalized, unfortunately people often are by gender, race, sexual preference and other areas commonly addressed in social discourse. It is time to come together around the common theme of spirituality, the spirit of the employee, the spirit of the work place, and the spirit which transcends it all to give meaning to it.

The arena of work is one sphere of life that cries for special attention. Most of us will spend the majority of our waking hours as adults doing work. If we also count the time invested in preparing for a career and the time each day preparing for work and traveling, and then add in the time spent working at things we don’t get paid for, then it is no stretch to say that most of us will probably work about half of our lives. Therefore, it is extremely important that we understand the spirituality involved over this huge area of our lives.

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We neglect this area for a variety of reasons. Some have a secret fear that their life is insignificant to God because they’re not in full-time Christian service. They worry that working a “secular” job dooms them to be less pleasing to God. Others struggle with laziness in their work and dismiss the voice of conscience because they believe God isn’t concerned about their work life. Still others fight with the temptation to make an idol out of work, seeking to find something in work accomplishments that can only be found in knowing God. The remedy for all these problems is a proper understanding of the spirituality of work.

All work has great dignity. Whether someone scrubs toilets or serves as president of the United States, his work has dignity in God’s sight. Adam had the best job the world has ever seen, and he was a farmer. We may not hear trumpets blaring or crowds roaring when we rake the yard or clean the kitchen, but our work brings pleasure to God. That fact alone invests our work with great dignity regardless of where it ranks in terms of social status or pay scale or personal enjoyment. As Paul says, “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve” (Colossians 3:23–24).

Work is a stewardship. As a result, we have no right to make a god out of work. We should do it because we delight in God! Our spirituality shines with our work; we don’t worship work as our god. Because we are answerable to God for our work, we have no right to elevate work above our other assignments, such as resting and giving thanks.

Spirituality At Work - The Spirituality of Work

Once upon a time some disciples asked their rabbi, "In the Book of Elijah we read: 'Everyone in Israel is duty bound to say, "When will my work approach the works of my ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?" But how are we to understand this? How could we in our time ever think that we could do what they could do?" And the rabbi explained: "Just as our ancestors invented new ways of serving - each a new service according to their own character - so each one of us in our own way must devise something new and of service to others and do what has not yet been done."

It's a lovely story. It takes the burden of false success off our shoulders. It faces us instead with the task of personal responsibility. We are not asked to do more than we can. We are simply asked to do something in our own time that has value. We are asked to profit the world by our existence. We are allowed to be unique; we are not allowed to be useless.

The story of co-creation is the autobiography of every human life, both yours and mine. Responsibility for the world starts here, with you, with me. Life is not about traveling through. Life is about doing something that lasts beyond us, something that will eventually at least, bring the world one step closer to completion. Life requires that we do more than philosophize about what the world lacks. We must do something of ourselves to provide it. Otherwise, why were we born?

"Work," the Persian poet Gilbran writes, "is love made visible." The meaning is clear: We do not work for ourselves, we work so that others may not want. We work for the gain for the next generation. Work involves us in the exercise of world-building, of co-creation, and we must each of us, in each age, work in new ways to achieve it.

The Book of Ecclesiastes puts it squarely. "There is a time to gain," it says. There is a time to make a difference. There is a time to develop the best in ourselves so that we can make the best possible world for everyone else as well.

The truth is that the most telling indicator of the spiritual deterioration of the Western world may well be in its modern disregard for work. People work for money now, not for the sake of the work itself. People work so that they can do something other than work as soon as possible.

People work to be employed, not for the sake of creative expression.

People work in segmented tasks that have no meaning to them. And so, ironically enough, we have separated work and life. Work is something we do because we have to do it, not something that we want to do because it is in itself fulfilling, meaningful, important to the world around us.

We work hard, yes, but we don't begin to live until after the workday is over. We work for personal profit now; we do not work for human gain or human expression. It is a sad commentary on creation. But with motives like those, it is possible to do anything of any caliber and never even realize the moral schizophrenia into which we have fallen. We have arrived at the point where people can work in nuclear arms plants and never feel an ounce of concern about the potential effects of their work.

We can work in places that dump chemicals in streams and rivers and lakes and seas without a quiver of conscience. We can spend our lives dallying in false advertising and slick brochures about barren land and cheap trinkets and never for a moment wince at the dishonesty of it. We can take sick days and use them for vacation time with impunity and do sloppy work without chagrin and turn mornings into one long coffee break and accept a wage for doing it and never even have the grace to blush.

Then we wander listless for years, wondering what our lives were really about. "We build statues of snow," the poet Walter Scott says, "and weep to see them melt."

Yet some of the basic questions of life are, "What am I doing and why am I doing it?

Who profits from what I do and who does not? What difference does this work make to the coming reign of God." The questions alone could change the world. They bring us to the mirror of life and ask us what we ourselves have done to make this world better or worse. Indeed, what the world needs now again is a conscious and conscientizing spirituality of work.

Work connects us to the rest of the world. It is our ticket to humanity, our permit to be alive. It is in our work that we share in a special way in the life of God. But the obstacles to a spirituality of co-creation run deep. Comfort, alienation, powerlessness and self-centeredness have a steel grip on the Western soul.

The notion that individuals can have whatever individuals can get turns greed into virtue in this society. We resent subsidized housing for the people who have been dealt out of the profit system, but we say hardly a word about the overruns and tax exemptions and sweetheart deals that keep corporate profiteering a ruthless business in America.

We criticize how the poor spend their food stamps but find no problem at all in the practice of cutting corners on tax returns. We forget that God will judge the poor on honesty and us on generosity.

We use the poor of other countries to provide labor at slave wages. Indeed, we export our jobs but not our pension plans or our fair labor practices or our wage scales. We use work to exploit people, in other words, rather to liberate them. We would like a better world but we ourselves go on sustaining this one by our silence, by our acceptance, by our assumption that what is now must ever be.

Somehow the idea escapes this generation that we have the responsibility to change it one heart at a time. Instead, the goals of this age have become disturbingly small. Past ages worked for the good of their children. We work for ourselves and leave our children to correct what we will leave behind - garbage in space, garbage in our waterways, nuclear garbage in our landfills.

In the making of assembly-line money, we have lost the vision that makes for holy responsibility.

Industrialization began the process that computerization now hastens at breakneck speed. Devoid now of creative manual labor, we no longer see the results of our work. We do not make products anymore. We count rivets or we stack paper. No one does the whole job. Compartmentalization has limited our sight, robbed us of a view of what we are really doing in life. Serfs never it had it so bad. Serfs saw a crop through from beginning to end, lived off of it themselves, canned it and planted it again. They knew the effects of what they did or didn't do and they knew them in their own lives.

We need new ideals of work. We need a heightened sense of sacramentality. We need to realize that everything that is, is holy and that our hands consecrate it to the service of God. A spirituality of work has seven major characteristics:

1. It sets out to create our private world anew: When we sweep the street in front of a house in the dirtiest city in the country, we bring new order to the universe. We tidy the garden of Eden. We make God's world new again. When we repair what has been broken or paint what is old or give away what we have earned that is above and beyond our own sustenance, we stoop down and scoop up the earth and breathe into it new life again, as God did one morning in time in order to watch it unfold and unfold and unfold through the ages.

When we compost garbage and recycle cans, when we clean a room and put coasters under glasses, when we care for everything we touch and touch it reverently, we become the creators of a new universe. Then we sanctify our work and our work sanctifies us.

2. A spirituality of work puts us in touch with our own creativity: Making a salad for supper becomes a work of art. Planting another evergreen tree becomes our contribution to the health of the world. Organizing a good meeting with important questions for the sake of preserving the best in human values enhances the humanity of humanity.

3. Work enables us to put our personal stamp of approval, our own watermark, the autograph of our souls on the development of the world. In fact, to do less is to do nothing at all.

4. A spirituality of work draws us out of ourselves and, at the same time, makes us more of what we are meant to be. My work develops myself. I become what I practice all my life. By trying again when trying seem futile, we come to test the limits of our strength and know the mettle of our lives.

5. Work that up-builds the human race rather than risks its destruction develops qualities of compassion and character in me.

6. My work develops everything around it. There is nothing I do that does not affect the world in which I live. In developing a spirituality of work, I learn to trust beyond reason that good work will gain good things for the world, even when I don't expect them and can't see them. And in that way I gain myself. I come into possession of a me that is worthwhile, whose life has not been in vain, who has been a valuable member of the human race.

7. Finally, a spirituality of work immerses me in the search for human community. I begin to see that everything I do -- everything -- has some effect on someone somewhere. I begin to see my life tied up in theirs. I begin to realize that work is the lifelong process of personal sanctification that is satisfied only by saving the globe for others and saving others for the globe.

Once upon a time, the ancients tell, past the seeker on a prayer rug came the beggars and the broken and the beaten. The pray-er was appalled and looking up to heaven cried out, "Great and loving God, if you are a loving God, look at these and do something!" And the voice came back from heaven, "I did do something. I made you."

A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring is that process by which I finally come to know that my work is God's work, unfinished by God because God meant it to be finished by me.

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