Contemplation of Work
I have been re-reading “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran lately. The excerpt ON LOVE is beautiful and I’d like to have it read at our wedding next spring.
In companionship with contemplating beginning a new life in marriage next year, I have been contemplating my (non-jewelry) job situation lately, praying for guidance and asking for affirmation that my instincts are not misleading me.
Two nights ago, with these questions burning in my mind, I randomly opened “The Prophet” and my eyes landed on this exerpt:
“Work is love made visible.
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.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.” – Kahlil Gibran
Speaking of work, I can’t wait for my studio day tomorrow so that I can share some of my new (jewelry) work with you!