There is nothing like life’s drudgery to make men and women of us. You chafe under it. You sigh for leisure, to be freed from bondage to hours, to duties, to tasks, to appointments, to rules, to the treadmill round. Yet this is God’s school for you. It may be a cross. Yes; but all true blessing comes to us hidden under the ruggedness and the heaviness of a cross. We do not grow most in the easiest life. Accept your treadmill round, your plodding, your dull task-work, and do all well — do always your best — and you will grow into strong, noble character.
Source : James Russell Miller, D.D. (1840-1912) “In Green Pastures”
Chapter: JR Miller,Money,Workplace :: 19 March 2006
