Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Work

I came across this quote today when skimming through one of my favorite little books:

"The world is full of people who seem to have listened to the wrong voice and are now engaged in life-work in which they find no pleasure or purpose and who run the risk of suddenly realizing someday that they have spent the only years that they are ever going to get in this world doing something which could not matter less to themselves or to anyone else. This does not mean, of course, people who are doing work that from the outside looks unglamorous and humdrum, because obviously such work as that may be a crucial form of service and deeply creative. But it means people who are doing work that seems simply irrelevent not only to the great human needs and issues of our time but also to their own need to grow and develop as humans."

-Frederick Buechner (The Hungering Dark)

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