November 13

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor. — Gal 6:4

Little do we know our own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the True Success is to labor.
— Robert Louis Stevenson.

Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to sense as well as to the thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Nature gives to labor; and to labor alone. In a very garden of Eden a man would starve but for human exertion.
— Henry George.

Prayer

My Father, make pure living clear to me, that I may not be deceived in my work; and may I not use my working hours searching for more suitable work, but may I be sure in what I am that I may feel secure in what I undertake to do. Amen.