I think of the guy who works for a company he really can’t stand. Yet he goes, day after day, and spends eight hours between cubicle walls making phone calls and filling in data sheets. He has what he doesn’t want: a so-called dead-end job with no promotion in sight. He stands at a crossroads. On one hand, he could go out and look for another job that better “confirms his worth.” Or he could embrace obscurity and accept that his worth doesn’t depend on the cool factor of his occupation. He could allow this daily suffering to transform him and enable him to have more to give—Christ’s love, plus
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