Labor of Love or Not

 

"It's not about working hard. It's about

what we're working hard about."

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When work is our passion, we extend ourselves heartily, engulfed with challenge and drive.  Work can be very difficult, but when the worker is totally invested, time and self-care float past awareness.  When we love what we do, it no longer is regarded as work .... maybe a labor of love.

When we are whole bodied invested in our labor, we still approach work with our highest abilities, but it is more of an investment than a task.  A mechanic can be bent over an engine for hours trying to determine what is in need of repair.  He is invested in the problem more than the outcome.   He welcomes the challenge, but is most interested in discovering what is hidden from his sight.

Then history book  thoughts of labor drift back and there is hardly any passion beaming from a coal mine or a sweat shop with women and children trapped for hours hunched over sewing machines.  In foreign lands, women still walk for hours sometimes for a day,  to find clean drinking water. Then harsh reality settles in ...  people deprived of work, family, and any sense of normalcy can no longer relate to the labor of love.