On Love, On Work

Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work
and sit at the gate of the temple
and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference,
you bake a bitter bread
that feeds but half man's hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes,
your grudge distills a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels,
and love not the singing,
you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day
and the voices of the night.

Gibran on Love
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And whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the rewards of your inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ. But he who has done wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

-Colossians 3:23-25