Labor Day – Colossians 1:24-2:3; Psalm 62; Luke 6:6-11
There are lots of different kinds of labor in our lives, and all of it can be good work and holy work.
There’s the work we do for a living, our jobs, day in a day out, and whatever that work is, it can be just as holy as the work of a priest or a sister, if we do it with humility and competence and kindness, even if it’s repetitive and menial and especially then. When we wash windows or rake leaves or load wood we are sharing in the work of Jesus, who came into the world as a carpenter’s son and who did the work of a carpenter and who washed feet and baked fish and called the fishermen and the laborers to follow him.