Thought for the Week

This “Thought” might fit better in September, when we celebrate “Labor Day.” But working and labor are on my mind. Our reaction to the epidemic has done strange things to labor and employment. Some may see labor as a result of God’s curse placed on Adam for his sin of disobedience to God’s command. But if we consider it carefully, Adam had work to do before his sin. Actually, he had both physical and mental labor. His physical labor was to tend and manage the garden God had planted for him and future generations. The mental labor was to name the animals. This was not to give nam...