Value Beyond Work

God made me and placed me on this earth to have a relationship with Himself.

THEN came "work" to do and a garden to tend.

The primary point of my life is not to work, but to walk with and to know God.

I was reminded of this recently while listening to a sermon on CD by a friend's pastor.

It really hit me.

And it really lowered my stress.

To be in relationship, not to work.

If it were primarily to work, then what of the times when I cannot?

Some of the best times I've had spiritually to date have been during the times in my life where I could not "work".

Yet I flourished internally, deeply in my soul.

I find that when I mix up the order of the two I gain stress and lose peace.

But that when relationship is first, everything else has a way of turning out okay. Someway. Somehow. Either now, or later. It just does and will.

Whether I'm "working" or not.

But still, it's a struggle.