Work and Play
March 04th, 2022 by G.
Working together as a family and having fun while you work is one of the peaks of human existence.
Watering each other and the plants.
Singing while washing the dishes.
Making charcoal for your garden and deciding among you to see if you could make a charcoal cardboard crown for no good reason.
Its a synthesis of virtues.
Getting there is not just a matter of will. It takes a fair amount of slogging and sloth and labor without much fun and fun without labor. The Plan of Salvation in microcosm.
By the way —
Slog + Sloth = Boredom
Zen
March 4, 2022
I remember one reading that the souls in Hell would weave ropes of sand for boredom. I don’t know where I read that, but it has always stuck with me. Work is inextricably linked with agency, and God always wants to increase our agency.
Perhaps we should say Slog U Sloth = Boredom, because this is a broad one.