The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Round Up

"For there is a great satisfaction in work well done,

the thrill of success in a task accomplished."

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, On Wisdom & Virtues

Enclosed is a round up of articles on our series of  "The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work". I know that I am in constant need of reminders and inspiration and I hope some of these essays from our archives will be an encouragement to you! 

The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Part 1: The Sweet Satisfaction (Mental Well-Being)

The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Part 2:  The Sweat Satisfaction (Physical Well-Being)

The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Part 3: The Sweetness of $aving (Financial Well-Being)

The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Part 4: The Spiritual Strengthening (Spiritual Well-Being)

The Blessings of Old Fashioned Work ~ Part 5: Balancing the Blessings (Overall Well-Being)

"We have been, for so long, thinking of labor as a curse upon man that, because of our persistently thinking of it as such, it has very nearly become so.

There always has been a great deal of misplaced pity for Adam because of his sentence to hard labor for life when really that was all that saved him after he was deported from paradise, and is the only thing that has kept his descendants as safe and sane even as they are.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the seat of his brow. The wrong is in our own position only. In trying to shirk while we "let George do it," we bring upon ourselves our own punishment; for in the attitude we take toward our work, we make of it a burden instead of the blessing it might be.

Work is like other good things in that it should not be indulged in to excess, but a reasonable amount that is of value to one's self and to the world , as is any honest, well-directed labor, need never descend into drudgery.

It is a tonic and an inspiration and a reward unto itself. For the sweetness of life lies in usefulness like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom."

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, On Wisdom & Virtues

“Yes,” she said, hopefully, “I know you will succeed, for the best thing a man can have, is work with a purpose in it, and the will to do it heartily.”

~ Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“The LORD will open to you his good treasury,
the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season

and to bless all the work of your hands.”

~Deuteronomy 28:12

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