Job: work done for money,
to pay the mortgage,
to keep the wife and kids happy.
Vocation: what sustains you,
done for the love of it,
the pure craft of the doing.
Job: external, coercive,
necessary only for lucre,
status, accumulation, dross.
Vocation: internal, freely chosen,
necessary for your heart,
creative, affirming, alive.
The singer who sings
freely and from the soul
creates beauty
and informs the world;
the drudge who labors
for sustenance and stuff
murders time
and deadens reality.
What we do
paints the portrait
of who we are.
Real work brightens being;
useless work darkens the heart.
Choose carefully.
- mce
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