Happy Ahoy there, me hearties! Let’s hoist the Jolly Roger and navigate through the treacherous waters of curiosity, for today be National Talk Like a Pirate Day! May the winds of knowledge be in our favor, and may yer Tuesday be filled with joy and discovery. 🏴☠️
In This Issue: Work & Faith: Reflecting on the Value of Work | Ultra-High-Definition AOC HDMI Cable | The Benefits of Using a Managed Switch | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Work & Faith: Reflecting on the Value of Work
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Over the weekend I was in a conversation with someone and the topic of work came up. I mentioned that work is something very important to me, that I believe there’s dignity in work, and that I would probably lose my mind if I wasn’t working. The person I was speaking with couldn’t have disagreed more. They mentioned that they would be perfectly happy if they never worked another day in their life, they get no satisfaction from work, and I got the impression that they operate daily out of a mentality of trying to skirt work as much as possible (not just vocationally, but around the house, etc).
While it’s pretty normal to not want to work ALL the time, the idea of NEVER wanting to work was so foreign to me that it almost felt shocking. The conversation really stuck with me and caused me to give some deeper thought into the subject of work. What are my beliefs surrounding it? Where those beliefs come from? Am I intentionally living in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs?
As a (very imperfect) Christ follower, the Bible is central in shaping my views and perspectives on pretty much everything and, as it turns out, it has a lot to say about work. There’s way more to discuss than could be fit into this CK daily, but suffice it to say that work was very clearly part of God’s plan from the beginning and it’s clear that our work matters to God.
What really challenged me was reading Colossians 3:23-24 which states:
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
Although that verse has been drilled into me since childhood, it’s easy to forget sometimes just who we are working for and how much our work does matter to God. It’s a good reminder that we should strive to work with excellence and be the best we can at whatever job we’re doing. While there’s no doubt that I’ll continue to fall short, I’m taping this verse to my monitor as a daily reminder!
Rebecca
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Learning Center Article – The Benefits of Using a Managed Switch
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Which is better?
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Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The crash site for a Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected was located Monday in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection.
- Apple released iOS 17 for iPhones, its biggest software update of the year. It’s available to anyone with an iPhone released in 2018 or later. This year’s update has a lot of improvements to some of the most used apps, including the Phone app, Messages and Safari.
- Homebuilder sentiment has gone negative for the first time in 7 months. Builder confidence in the single-family housing market fell 5 points in September to 45. Fifty is the line between positive and negative sentiment.
- Elon Musk reported X is “moving to having a small, monthly payment for use of the X system” and said the social network now has 550 million monthly users.