As a middle school principal, I joked with the office staff that if we didn't have to "stop working" for all the kids, we'd get our job done.
Then we would pause and say, "Oh, yes, those kids are our job!"
It is Saturday and if you are a jobaholic, you relish the hours stretched before you in which you can check off your to-do list.
But then people enter the picture--family, friends, neighbors--all of whom relish you, your time and your input.
What is one to do?
Wonder if God ever thinks, "I could tinker with the physics of my universe all day. It doesn't argue with me, it follows my laws--what a pleasure! But then, where would my people be?"
It seems the love of God's life is each of us. Every single one. So, to take a tip from the guy with the longest to-do list in the world, work with love...for people.
Have a love-filled, people-filled Saturday.
