Guilty As Charged

Don't you loathe it when you are convicted the first thing in the morning?

"The workplace has always been a threat to spiritual formation because it is the place where we don't wonder very much. Wonder is pretty much banished on principle. In the workplace, we know that we are competent or that we are bored and inattentive. In today's culture, the threat posed by life diminished by wonder is accelerated many times over.

That is why Christian formation--formation by resurrection--demands endless vigilance. The workplace is the arena in which idolatry is constantly being reconfigured by putting us in a position of control and giving us things and systems that enable us to exercise our skills and carry out our strategies in the world.

Wonder, that astonished willingness to stop what we're doing, to stand sill open-eyed, open-handed, ready to take in what is "more and other," is not encouraged in the workplace."

--Eugene Peterson in his new book, Living the Resurrection

I'm most certainly convicted.

And I work in an environment that is probably more wonder-inducing than any other occupation.