September 5, 2005
Work
It has been said that if you lose yourself in your work, you find who you are. And that if you express the best you have in you in your work, it is more than just the best you have in you that you are expressing.
Millions of people were already out of work before Katrina, without a place to lose themselves. And now at least another million have neither a place left to lose nor a place left to find.
Labor Day celebrates work and workers. But it’s never been more than a gossamer holiday, a kind of joke on ourselves. If it’s a day off from a work that no longer exists, it’s not even much of a time for play.
[Visit Episcopal Relief and Development at http://www.er-d.org/ to make a donation to Katrina Relief or Episcopal Migration Ministries at emm@episcopalchuyrch.org to volunteer to assist displaced people with housing.]