Our Spirit and Work

Our spirit is that which makes us alive.

Our work is the expression of our spirit's will to do two things:

Continue to live

Create, produce

Most, if not all, living beings work to continue living. Work is the activity we do to sustain our life. It's how our spirit sustains itself. It's what we do for food, water, and protection (clothing and shelter). It's how we take good care of our own spirit and other's spirits too.

When we are able and do not work and depend on others to care for for us, we fail at being responsible for ourselves. We make life harder for others by making them work for us. We thwart our spirit's own drive to sustain itself.

Some who have others do their work for them are called "leaders" and "business owners." Others are called "dependents", "lazy", or worse. There is little difference between the two. Both live off the labor of others.

We each have our own work to do to sustain ourselves and continue our lives. We do well when we do it.

Most, if not all, living beings also create and produce. Flowers create and produce blooms and aromas. Trees create and produce nuts and fruit. Spiders create webs and bees create hives and produce honey. 

We humans also create and produce: clothes, shoes, jewelry for our bodies, body paint, piercings, hair styles, houses, farms, machines, factories, music, dance, wood and stone carvings, paintings, poetry, stories, songs, and abundantly more. 

All living beings also naturally reproduce. 

All creativity, production and reproduction is the fruit of our work driven by our spirit.

Work is a natural activity. It's in-born. Our spirit compels  us to work. It drives us to sustain ourselves. It also drives us to create, produce, and reproduce.

Our work is a spiritual activity.