October 16 / God at Work

Welcome to the Jungle

unnamed What can I say about work? It stinks, but hey, it’s part of life. I love what Red Foreman told his son Eric in That Seventies Show while discussing their jobs. “If work wasn’t work, they wouldn’t call it ‘work.’ They’d call it something else—like super-wonderful, crazy-fun time.”

It didn’t used to be this way, and God didn’t intend for the majority of our lives to be toil. The curse of toil is the result of the Fall. God intended the Garden of Eden, paradise. Work wasn’t work—it was meaningful and joyous. After all, Adam tended the Garden and named the animals.

Don’t Forget to Say “Thanks”

I was engaged to the girl of my dreams. Life was good. But my career in real estate was anything but solid, and that made the prospect of marriage a little unnerving. I was walking through a building I was in the process of listing, and across the street was the jewelry store where I had bought the engagement ring.

The ring was a hit with my fiancé. I literally was marrying the girl next door, and the jeweler was our neighbor, too. So the jeweler knew my wife, and he went the extra mile to help craft the perfect ring. And that’s what it was– a perfect ring for the perfect the girl.

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October 14 / God at Work

Selling Reconciliation

I’m reading a book about sales, and it is really, really boring. Full of flow charts, acronyms, and points beginning with the same alphabetical letter, it is the stereotypical business book. But what really tops off the business book stereotype is how impersonal it makes business– it’s a bunch of meaningless words that dehumanizes the marketplace—the real world marketplace is very human.

City on a Hill

One of the best bits I’ve seen lately was a Daily Show clip montage poking fun at how Obama seems to be working on everything, including reading Pakistani Urdu poetry, except the economy. It concluded with a punch line from the cable business anchor receiving breaking news. “This just in: the job market still sucks.” Read MoreCity on a Hill