Bulletin 7.14.24

You get up every morning from alarm clock's warning

Take the 8:15 into the city

There's a whistle up above

and people pushing, people shoving

And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine

And start your slavin' jobs and get your pay

If you ever get annoyed, look at me, I'm self-employed

I love to work at nothing all day

And I've been takin' care of business, every day

Takin' care of business, every way

I've been takin' care of business, it's all mine

Takin' care of business and working overtime, work out 

- Randy Bachman, “Takin’ Care of Business” (Track 8 

on the 1973 album, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II)

The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables…  No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth. No piety in the worker will compensate for work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own technique is a living lie. 

—Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?” 

(essay, 1942; emphasis added)

St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans (12. 1-3) 

 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.  

(Prayer)