Labor of Love

 

 Paint with sawdust on plastic dropcloth, staff flats construction,

 Maua Methodist Hospital, Maua, Kenya

I remember an adolescent who would always answer the question, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” with, “I think anyone can make money, but not everyone can make money doing something they love. That’s what I want to do. Make money doing something I love.” Kahlil Gibran, in his writing on work in the book The Prophet, puts it simply: “Work is love made visible.” He goes on to say, “When you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God,” and “If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” Find work you love. If you don’t love it, find something else.