"Why Work?"

A good friend sent along, a few days ago, a wonderful essay -- one that I cannot believe I hadn't encountered before! -- by Dorothy Sayers called "Why Work?"  "Work," she contends (sounding very much like Laborem Excercens) "should be looked upon, not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God."  Her critique of what already seemed (50 years ago!) a crassly superficial and consumption-oriented post-War economic situation seems prescient.

Other nuggets include "[t]he only Christian work is good work well done" and "God is not served by technical incompetence; and incompetence and untruth always result when the secular vocation is treated as a thing alien to religion[.]"   But, there's a lot more, and the piece certainly does not map nicely onto today's political and partisan lines and distinctions.  Check it out.