Looking for work. Wishing for less work. Hoping for a career change but feeling locked in. Finding a job in a part of the world where unemployment and underemployment are pervasive. Trying to balance time for one's children with work outside the home. Thinking there must be more to life than trying to "earn a living."
In some ways, we may think that who we are is largely defined by our career. What happens to our own and others' view of us when we lose our job? Or when what we do doesn't really match our talents or capability?
The man whom Christians call their Way-shower once described his career this way: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Even as a child, Christ Jesus explained, "I must be about my Father's business." Is this view of work—so inextricably joined with spiritual purpose—really relevant to our individual careers? Or is it only for an idealistic, "saintly" few, and not for the millions of individuals living and working in the late twentieth century?
