Work, at its best

One reason we think this way is because work, at its best - and it is not always at its best - gives full scope to our possibilities. It engages us intellectually, emotionally, and volitionally. It calls forth important human capacities, and I think that is what everyone wants to experience, but I do not know if all work is capable of evoking that experience. Indeed, classically understood, the Christian notion of vocation does not require work to evoke that experience. Vocation only requires work to serve one’s neighbor; that is meaning enough.


Gilbert Meilaender, Acton Institute Interview

Thanks to a fellow commonplace book for this reminder.