THANK YOU FOR PHAM PHAM!!

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.”