Our works
Everyone who seeks meaning in their life,
seeks meaning in their work.
And, yet, how far we are driven away
from that meaning at times
by what we feel are the pressures of the moment-
And the sense that we are not in control.
We diminish ourselves in that we abandon
the spiritual reality of who we are
and make deals with Life
that get us through, moment to moment.
Even so, we are meant I know, for more-
meant to give more to others and to ourselves.
In our business dealings, just Work does not work.
The fun, the pleasure, the sense of creation,
and camaraderie of work are at best
a recreation of ourselves on a daily basis.
We cannot sustain ourselves
and others around us with less.
It is what we must cultivate to become or to stay
an organization able to exist in and deal with the future.
We can look back at where we have been for knowledge,
but the only ultimately viable perspective on our work
must be what we will become – what we can create together
standing on common ground, on higher ground –
“At play in the fields of the Lord.”
By Gary Mahan
Reflection shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel
Watercolor by ~liz
Journal of Sacred Work 
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