Community Post: Twenty Men Fixing a Road
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Given that I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and work often in the Washington area, it’s not uncommon for me to drive on Interstates 81 and 66, often while on the way to participate in some sort of discussion on work and vocation. On these drives, it is also not uncommon to pass by road construction, with fifteen or twenty or more (mostly) men tearing up lanes of highway or building new ones. What’s the best season for road work? Apparently, every one of them. Their projects are seemingly endless.
As I ride past these men in their boots and jeans and florescent yellow vests, to make it to a meeting to discuss the meaning of work and the dignity of labor and God’s greater purposes in the world, my mind naturally goes to the questions, What about the work of these guys? What does God think about that? What if they are not Christians? What if they are?
Read the entire post, On Work and Human Flourishing: Twenty Men Fixing a Road, at The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture.
Image by Emilie Eagan. Used with permission. Sourced via Flickr. Post by Contributing Editor Glynn Young.
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