Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Both statements can be true … Many jobs (mine particularly) serve no moral or enduring purpose, but how we do them most certainly can 🙂
In heaven people will learn the good they have done on earth. Sometimes we are surrounded by people who need us.
I guess “Based in Christ” would feel differently about their job if they didn’t have one. Thank God for all things which we humanely can easily take for granted. Myself included 🙋🏻♀️
I once cleaned chickens for a living, cut butter for 3,500 sailors, polished cows, and shoveled their manure at $1 for a days pay. Every bit of that was a gift from God.
Too all of the commenters.
Yes.
Amen, including Mr. McClarey. 🙂
Take a close look at the Holy Family.
St Joseph… a carpenter.
Our Lady? A mother and seamstress. Mending clothes.
St. Peter.. a fisherman prior to be a fisher of men.
The greatest occupation is the one you love and the LOVE of blooming where your planted.
Meaning loving God with all your might, mind and heart. The fisher of men becomes more than an occupation, it becomes your very identity.
Whats beautiful is that it doesn’t matter if you love to be a waiste management engineer or a leader of a country. They are equal in relationship to being a good fisher of men. You could say that the waiste management engineer served the Lord much greater than a leader of a country because he loved God with all his might and in doing so attracted others to God. A leader of a country may have lost that zeal for God and consequently became a very poor fisher of men.
Based In Christ.
exactly.