Sunday night is soon going to be turned into a Monday morning. For a lot of us that means one thing: Work. I have the privilege to have a job and so I am getting up too, tomorrow morning. I’ll eat breakfast and do all the things I need to do and then I’ll take the metro and then walk for about 8 minutes to the store I work at. It’ll be around 3pm when I’ll say good0bye to my co-workers and finally leave and go home. I’ll repeat the same thing on Tuesday, although, I’ll be leaving a little later then 3. Does that sound like your routine too? Maybe, partially.

After watching a movie tonight, my roomie’s first words were these: “I don’t want to go to work” I felt the same. Now I’m wondering, “Why do we need to feel that way?” It’s true that work is not as pleasant as God first designed it, but serious, I think it’s very discouraging to realize that so many people have little satisfaction with their jobs and have no desire to go there.

I don’t feel like going to work, but I really would like to have a change of attitude. I think it’s starting in some ways. I would like my job to be part of my life, not just a parenthesis during my day. I feel like when I go to work, I’m just pressing “pause” on the video of my life and when I come home I press “record” again. As if it was not important, temporary, not part of my real life, as if I don’t want to include it. But the thing is, work is real and is a big part of my life right now. So how can I ensure that it becomes important and pleasant? The only thing I can think of right now is pretty simple: I need to see my job as a great opportunity to bring Jesus into the lives of people around me, opportunity to uphold God’s standards, opportunity to display Jesus’ attitude. I want this to be exciting. I don’t want to think so much about the work (although, I want to accomplish my tasks well) but about Jesus.

You may not think it’s so exciting. You may think there’s no opportunity for you to bring Jesus at work. Well, I’m sure there are some ways somehow. I think I need to pray more seriously about my job and how I can reflect God’s character and love, how I can share Jesus. Because really, God holds the world into His palm (well I mean, His hand…) and the lives of my employers and co-workers, He’s given me this job, this life of mine is all about Him being glorified and treasured. So, why should I only see work as an oppornity to make money so I can buy food and etc.? God is my Provider… so He probably has a greater purpose to giving me a job at Value Village.