Never Stop: Work

"Whistle While You Work"

In 1937, Frank Churchill and Larry Morey joined forces and wrote the quickly, and still, well-known song, "Whistle While You Work."  Snow White, voiced by Adriana Caselotti, made the song famous.  If you've seen the movie, you can picture fawns, squirrels, and birds joining in with Miss White as she tidies up the house or perhaps from later on in the film when Sleepy, Doc, Happy, and the remaining four dwarfs whistle and sing their newly-learned tune.

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Now unless you office by yourself or, due to COVID, you are officing at home, I suggest that you refrain from actually whistling - as your neighbor will soon grow weary of your wind-powered tune.  However, try to keep whistling and singing in your heart.  Recall the theme verse of The Ordinary Way.

Romans 12:1 (MSG)
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

Notice the inclusion of "going-to-work."  Your work is an opportunity for worship.  Here are a few ways to make it so . . .

1. Thank God for your work.  Actually, tell God "Thank You."  Thank Him for giving you the intellectual, emotional, and physical abilities that make it possible for you to do your job.
2. Look for ways to honor Him at work.  Treat your co-workers well.  Practice integrity.  Refuse to do tasks that dishonor God.  Humbly accept tasks that seem "beneath you."
3. Spend / Share / Give your earnings well.
4. Pray for your employer / employees / co-workers / patients / clients, etc.  Pray with them when possible.
   
5. Live 1 Peter 2:12.
   

1 Peter 2:12 (NIV
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

BTW, I'm not calling your co-workers "pagans."       :-)

You don't work with squirrels, or seven dwarfs; but with whomever you work - even if it is completely by yourself - place your "going-to-work" life before God as an offering.  And, every once in a while, whistle.  Maybe even sing the whole song.

#ordinarylives

Photo Credit:  https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Whistle_While_You_Work?file=Snowwhite-disneyscreencaps_com-3059.jpg