By John Cuddeback, CERC
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It is notable and even arresting how often our best efforts meet with failure—or at least what seems failure.
This gives an opportunity to take a more careful look at how we conceive the point or goal of our daily labors.
In his Parochial and Plain Sermons John Henry Newman made a dramatic assertion, which could change our whole approach to work:
The time for reaping what we have sown is hereafter, not here; here there is no great visible fruit in any one man’s lifetime.
My first response to this was skepticism; surely this is exaggeration! Then I kept thinking about it. I thought of Joseph of Nazareth. And other great men. What is the point of our work anyway? There is more here than meets the eye. …