Wednesday, August 10, 2016

A Path of Work


A carpenter's steady grip
A sugeon's delicate fingers
A plumber’s agile knees
A dancer’s nimble feet.

Human beings
Equal and unique
Following our own calling
Being of service
Moving along the path of work
Encouraging our world
Be a saner place.

Let work’s daily routines
Transform us all
Give of ourselves
Shape a kinder world.

Different skills we offer
Reducing us to equals
We all desire the same--
Happiness and wanting to reduce discomfort
Let us serve a greater good
Our common welfare can come first.

Our paths of work
Fill the sky with a vast rainbow
Each color shows a range of pay
Reflecting a beauty of talents
No one more gifted than another
We support each other
Along the way.

Let  work
Humble us
No matter poor or rich
We depend on each other
It’s possible to help our world thrive.

Work mirrors life
Such little control over who and what we encounter
A constant emerges—our state of mind
It shapes the choices we make
Minute by minute our life unfolds.

Dive deep into an inner path of work
We shape our work
As our work shapes us.
Let’s become more caring and unselfish.
Greed divides us all.

Stop drawing divisions between
Work and life
We are the crafters of both
Freedom shines
Right where we work and live. 

All rights reserved. John Fulan.

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