As I come back into my daily routines, I am reminded of one of my favorite books, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Perhaps it is time to see my “routines” as a way to work with love!
Gibran writes: 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.
Yes, work is love made visible. Look to see my work as love more visible. How about you?