The work-life balance can be very challenging in our modern world. Maybe the boss starts sending us out of town for meetings and we just get accustomed to making our evening screentime our family time for the day. Maybe we finally get that promotion we always wanted only to have to work from home with our boss quite literally in our bedroom, demanding our nonstop availability. While our instinct might be to draw a hard boundary between personal time and being on the clock, as the third commandment does, Jesus seems to complicate things when he heals on the Sabbath, claiming that his father is “always working” (which is difficult to deny as babies are born and people die each and every day of the week!). And, by the way, isn’t cooking for our families and mowing the lawn work? And, haven’t we all developed meaningful and enduring friendships in the workplace? Let’s accept the fact that we were made on the sixth and final day of creation which puts us somewhere between a constant storm of worldly activity and the stillness of eternal life. When we get comfortable with ourselves at this level, we will stop projecting our unrest and, with Jesus, spend our eternity working for the salvation of the world. Ave Crux, Spes Unica.
November 29, 2025
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