Dear brothers and sisters,
What do these sayings all have in common?
- Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.
- Genius is ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration.
- Give assistance not advice in a crisis.
- If you want something done right, do it yourself.
- Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.
- No pain, no gain.
- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
On Sunday, we’ll be looking at Proverbs that deal with the subject of W-O-R-K! Woohoo~!!!
Between my first year and last two years of seminary, I worked as a project manager in semiconductor and internet industries. My last job as a PM was working for an internet portal, working with programmers, engineers, producers, operations, QA and executives to produce e-commerce products. When my wife and I decided to go back to seminary, I filled out resignation letter and told my boss that I was leaving the company for seminary. My VP of engineering looked at the letter and simply said, “Well, that’s a first!”
In a way, working as a PM was a detour. But I got to work side-by-side with people that are under tremendous stress. A study says that people work 50 hours a week in Silicon Valley…on average. I got to experience what many of you experience on a daily basis; something that I could never have learned in a classroom.
We want to explore together what it means to be a Christian in our work place, how do we make the connection between work and faith, and how can we bring glory to God through our work.
I’m looking for our time together.
Until the work is done,
Daniel.