It's My Job

So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 

 

I remember my very first job...I was a cook for Captain D's.  I didn't like the job because I would always come home smelling like fish and grease.  In fact, on Saturday's I had to spend the first four hours of the day hosing down the parking lot, then I got to go home for four hours only to come back and cook for another four hours.  

 

I found no joy in my job.  Until the day I was hosing off the parking lot when the garbage truck came in.  The stink was more horrible than the fish and grease, yet the guys working the truck were whistling, laughing, and having a great time.  Being curious, I asked how they could be so happy to be around that stink all the time.  The older guy smiled and said, "Son, to you, this is just a job.  To me, this is where God put me.  Who am I to tell God that He was wrong? I do this job with joy and will always be grateful that I have a job."

 

Needless to say, that got my young mind thinking.  On my way home, I heard a Jimmy Buffet song "It's My Job" which, I believe, God used to change my perspective.

 

It's been many (many, many) years since that day, and God has blessed me with a job I cannot imagine loving more. Each day I get to come in, enjoy interacting with those God brings my way, offering encouragement, hope, and perhaps a bit of wisdom.  How about you?  Miserable is a choice! Angry and Bitter are choices!  Happiness, Joy, Gratitude are Choices!  What will you choose?