Love what you do and do what you love!

Luke 21:1-4

While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box. Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins. "I tell you the truth," Jesus said, "this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them. For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has."

Food for thought!

Under the powerful watch of Jesus!

As we begin our work week, providence has given us this gospel reading. I suggest to take for our meditation the part that says that Jesus watched! He watched those men and women as they carried out their Temple duty of donating. I am sure the people did not know that they were being watched by Jesus.

The idea of being watched by God is not really new. In Mark 6:46-48, after telling everyone good-bye, Jesus went up into the hills by himself to pray. Late that night, the disciples were in their boat in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was alone on land. HE SAW that they were in serious trouble, rowing hard and struggling against the wind and waves.

Another time, reported in Matthew 9:9, Jesus was walking along, HE SAW a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

As Phillip and Nathanael approached Jesus, he said, "Now here is a genuine son of Israel-a man of complete integrity." "How do you know about me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, "I SAW YOU under the fig tree before Philip found you." (Jn 2:47-48).

These and others instances, show that Jesus shows up at our places or work; that he sees us as we discharge our daily duties at the place of work. Matthew the evangelist and apostle was even called from his desk, at work!

That the widow put in all she had means that she put all of herself into what she was doing; she put all of herself into the giving. This is what made her excel the rich in the eyes of Jesus. It is always the case. We always excel when we put ourselves into whatever we are doing. If you're driving a car absent mindedly, that is, if you don't put yourself into the driving, you easily can cause accident. 

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, BE ALL IN IT; put yourself into what you're doing; if you're eating, if you're in the office, if you're shopping, if you're reading, if you're praying or playing... be all in it. And, as Steve Jobs told us, love what you're doing, and do what you love. This is the formula for success.