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A Worthy Career//Haylee Lynd

      My favorite phrase within all that we've read this weekend is "a career of worship." The monks dedicated to it. Reading about the eight services which made up the day of the Canonical Hours or the Divine Office was quite convicting for me. It appears the monks are functioning from dusk til dawn. During all that time, everything they are doing is being done to bring glory to the Lord. They do, essentially, a quiet time in the early morning hours, eat, study, worship, and work(and their work as monks was not really anything extraordinary secular). They were constantly in a mindset of working for the Lord. I work at a church helping to manage our tech, our tech volunteers, and our social media. This does not mean I am in the constant mindset of working for the Lord, however. I fail continuously to spend intentional time with the Lord and being as involved I am with running the behind the scenes of a Sunday morning, I generally don't retain much from the message. I'm not trying to throw a pity party, but I am simply trying to be open and to express how much different the life I'm leading and the life the monks were leading are. It astonishes me. I want to look at my life and my work and be able to confidently call it "a career of worship," as it should be. We are commanded to do everything we do for the glory of God. Worship is not simply the way in which we praise the Lord through song, but it is every thought we have, every word we say, and every action we take. Through these things, we are either worshipping God or we are worshipping the Lord. I want my life to a career of worship to the Lord.


P.S. I commented on Jessef's and Isabelle's posts.

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  1. Emma Kate PattersonFebruary 8, 2021 at 11:45 PM

    I like that you pointed out that we should be doing everything for the glory of God. I think a lot of times we get busy in life and forget our true purpose and why we are here. It is important for us to remember our true purpose and live everyday for the glory of God.

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