At the beginning of a new working year consider this and say thank you for Pham Pham
(Pham Pham means abundance in San Bushman).
Creation
and Work is LOVE made visible.
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy
might.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
ABUNDANCE
Many
people today drag themselves from one boring day to the next and hate every
moment of what they are doing including their school or work. They question the
reason for working and even for living. If it is not possible to change your
circumstances, school or job, you can change your attitude by appreciating life
and enjoying every little thing you do. As God’s child you are filled with love
and even in the most negative circumstances it is possible to find pride and
joy in your school or work and all the little things you do daily. Working
together with Father God means to work in LOVE, it will channel power into your
daily life and you will be able to deal with life triumphantly in the present
and in the future. Life is LOVE, live in LOVE.
“All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it
but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness. Labour wide as the
earth, has its summit in Heaven”. (Thomas Carlyle)
Poet and Artist Kahlil Gibran wrote this about work;
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and
the soil of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the
season, and to step out of life’s procession that marches on in majesty and
proud submission towards the infinite.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart
the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when
all else sings together in unison?
Always you have been told that work is a curse and that labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a
part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth
loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate
with life’s inmost secret.
But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and
the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that
naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written.
You have been told also that life is darkness, and
in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.
And I say that life is indeed darkness save when
there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge.
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
and all work is empty save when there is love;
And when you work with love you bind yourself to
yourself, and to one another, and to God.
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from
your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if
your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the
harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with breath
of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing
about you and watching.
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with
distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of
the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a
bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your
grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the
singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the
night.”
