Thomas Merton once said" Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself."
This is so true of my life, particularly working in child care. When you have spent the fifth consecutive hour mediating which toy belongs to which child, it is easy to get bogged down in the low pay, long hours or high stress. But, this verse gave me a lot of hope in thinking about the reason why I do what I do. It took me a long time to consistently focus on what really matters in my job: the fact that I get to have a hand in shaping and molding the next generation of people. That is what keeps me going. That is the truth in my work. That's the truth that makes it all worth it.
A wife. a mother. A pastor's wife. Above all, a Christ follower.
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