Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without
respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither
tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It
honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and
as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not
disassociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or
usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a
product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,
the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to
make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when
the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are
understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit.
Wendell Berry"Christianity and the Survival of
Creation" in Sex,
Economy, Freedom & Community
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