10/16/17 … In
Doing Good
It’s easy to
grow tired as we struggle to carry around all of our various life-burdens:
psychological, physical and physiological. It’s easy to work primarily for the
weekends when we experience ongoing difficulty in our work. Those difficulties
can come with the stuff of life outside work, tough customers, leadership
decisions that bother you, instability within your company, and much more. Tiredness
can lead to weariness- especially if we lose sight of goal.
Shakespeare’s
Hamlet struggled with some of these things. May be you can identify with his
perspective during his “To be or not to be” soliloquy regarding the situations
that make a “weary life.” Probably, we all are affected by the “whips and
scorns of time,… the law’s delay and the insolence of office,” and we might
feel like it’s just not worth it to keep putting up with all of it. But, we are
“doing good.” That is- the work we do every day makes a difference and helps
people- it is good that we are doing for our customers- for the world- the
universe.
The Apostle
Paul, in one of his letters to his supporters in a (messed up) church in
Galatia, suggested that his people “not grow weary in doing good for in due
season we will reap, if we do not give up.” This is our challenge: Despite any
pressures, we must keep a focus on the fact that what we are doing is to the GOOD. Get some rest to take care of your tiredness, but do not grow weary. Please do not give up.
