Work doesn't end when one retires! In retirement, I find I am still looking for interesting, satisfying and meaningful ways to spend my time. So I was interested to read the following comments on creative work:
Good work, creative work, is any work that makes the world around us a better, more humane place to be. It isn't just creating something new that makes us "creative." It is taking care of what is good in it that makes us artists of our own lives. What we do to beautify the world is a service of the soul that touches the souls around us as well as fulfills our own.
It is impossible to do anything that affects only ourselves. Every good we do makes the world better. Every harm we do, even to ourselves, makes it worse for someone else...
These comments, found in Joan Chittister's little book, Aspects of the Heart: The Many Paths to a Good Life, pages 20-21, make me think not only of the many creative arts I enjoy, like knitting, gardening and painting, but also of the power of words spoken and written.
Talking may not sound like work! (But it is to those who spend their working days talking!) Our words are creative: able to cheer, inspire... or depress!
Whether we realize it or not, our lives overflow with creativity all day long!
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