Why Work is Divine – Part 3

Anyone who has any experience with work and the

workaday world may see and remember that there are two

things that we deal with at work.

One is the duties and responsibilities that are

involved with our work. Generally, if we are

adequately trained and a balanced individual our work

will not put excessive and undue pressure and stress

on us.

Usually it is not so much the work that we find

stressful as the quality of the people that we work

with.

We lose patience with the lazy and complaining co -

worker or those who have an attitude different then

ours to work. Sometimes those that we work with may

think that our approach to work is something that they

should and can ridicule.

A greater problem may be that we feel that our boss

‘has it in for us” or is unfair to or too demanding of

us.

If we have any experience living or working in another

country, we will find that such a feeling is one that

can be had by all people in all parts of the world.

But it is this opportunity to work with others in a

mutually beneficial manner that is another thing that

makes work divine.

We can look at our experience of work as being an

opportunity to interact with others who face like -

minded challenges at both work and in life.

We will many times also find that because of the

amount of time and effort we put into work, it is the

people that we work with who turn out to be the people

that we are closest to, relate to the best and many

times share many of our social activities with.

Sometimes they become our closest long - term and

lifetime friends, and if we move on to a new job, it

is them that we find that we will feel the most

difficulty leaving behind.

It is such an opportunity for growth with others and

the shared experience of life and working with others

that is another example of how work is divine.

Like all aspects of living a spiritual and divine

existence, it is our approach to life and work that is

of greatest significance.

If we see those that we work with as our competitors,

we will not see them as colleagues and friends.

If we see those that we work with as threats to or

having ambitions and desires that conflict with ours,

we will be less likely to trust or share with them.

If we see those that we work with in terms of being

lazy, uncaring and uncooperative, we will have a more

difficult time seeing such tendencies within

ourselves, or to understand why they are such a way,

or be willing to investigate what it is in their

present or past life that has led them to think and

act in this manner.

In sharing the work experience with others, we are

once again provided with the opportunity to access and cultivate the divine within, while seeing it at work in the lives and actions of others.

©2004 John C. Kimbrough

(John lives and teaches in Bangkok, Thailand. He can

be reached at johnckimbrough@yahoo.com)