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I would deplore working all my life at a job I did not at least like very much. Also I am a Labor Day baby - Sept. 5 (first Monday in the September of the year I was born in)

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Colossians 3: 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters labor loved with all one's might makes the most satisfying service May 3, 2022 for Beata Agustin's Work Perspective Monoku Poetry Contest

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Line Gauthier

Date: 6/4/2022 8:29:00 AM

Well penned, Andrea ~

Sam Kauffman

Date: 5/26/2022 10:21:00 AM

A labor done with all love does indeed bring a satisfied smile to the spirit taking it out of the realm of drudgery and into the realm of joy. Well spoken Andrea. Congratulations on your win.

Joanna Daniel

Date: 5/25/2022 3:45:00 AM

Great take on the same verse, Andrea, congratulations:)

Howard Kerr

Date: 5/23/2022 6:20:00 PM

Andrea, Your entry is superb. Congratulations on another triumph on merit. Thanks for your comment on my submission Howard

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/22/2022 3:27:00 PM

Andrea, it surely does! Congratulations a,

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 5/22/2022 8:16:00 AM

Congratulations on your win. Your "Labor Loved" is a wonderful write. Have a blessed day.......................

Beata Agustin

Date: 5/22/2022 7:52:00 AM

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your quotable monoku on work perspective. Thanks likewise for your added notes. God bless you.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 5/7/2022 3:47:00 AM

Good one-liner. If one loves what they do, it is not work at all. If one really would like to be somewhere else, it is torture. Reads like a good contender to me. Sara

Bill Baker

Date: 5/5/2022 3:27:00 PM

Nice Monoku for the contest, Andrea. I agree completely with your poem and the scripture. Hugs, Bill

Timothy Ray

Date: 5/4/2022 7:10:00 PM

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.....Khalil Gibran....my thoughts exactly...i have had 3 careers...loved them all

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/4/2022 12:02:00 PM

Which is why there are few tasks Native Americans can do which do not have an accompanying song or chant to make the task more pleasant! Good luck in the contest! Aloha!

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 5/4/2022 12:44:00 PM

cool. I was not exactly saying what the Bible quote said, but I think some took my meaning to be only service to God, which is not what I meant.

Alexis Y.

Date: 5/4/2022 11:40:00 AM

Hi Andrea, You did a great job with the contest challenge. It complements the passage you quoted very well. Best wishes in the contest-Alexis

John Watt

Date: 5/4/2022 11:06:00 AM

I love the passage you quoted, and I love your monoku about work...I can imagine Beata loving this too. I'm sure your students are happy you enjoy your work. I wonder how many times your mother must have heard jokes about being in labor on Labor Day?

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 5/4/2022 12:44:00 PM

yep!!

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 5/4/2022 2:40:00 AM

How difficult for humanity to offer all to God. But that's what we should do. Hugs.