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ESSAYS on faith: Love can make work enjoyable, not a chore

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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20030914
Author:John D. Moorhead

When we celebrated Labor Day, working people and their concerns took center stage. My experience suggests that work is larger than the day-to-day. It has a spiritual dimension.

Work takes up much of our lives. Can it enrich us spiritually? By bringing spiritual qualities to our work experience, we can bless others and ourselves.

Kathleen Norris, in her book, "Dakota," about faith on the Great Plains, talks about Benedictine monks who follow the concept of "prayer and work." In their monastic experience, prayer and work blend in a continuous texture.

Another way to express this concept is "love ...

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