Working

(A Sermon delivered to the Fun Lovin' Church)

Fifty-six hours a week.

I need to sleep roughly fifty-six hours a week. If I do not sleep enough each day I cannot function properly. I cannot be angry about this, though, for that is how I am made. Sleeping is like eating and breathing. Sleeping is beautiful. I willingly part with those fifty- six hours a week. What I cannot bear witnessing is each person in this congregation wasting their lives away in the unnatural ritual of self inflicted torture!

I am speaking about work!

Each and every one of you sieze your weekends with such passion because you have only so much time between wonderful Friday and terrible Monday! Why did you agree to live out your short lives in an J-O-B? Money? Prestige? Love?

No!

You have to work. You have to make money to eat and live under a roof. You also work so that you might make your life comfortable. You think that you cannot survive life without the money earned from your efforts. You allow your job to distract you from your most important gift -- yourself! Your finished work represents who you are, and that money is representative of the worth of yourself and your work.

But you are never the person who judges, are you? You are never dependent on your own sense of yourself to determine how much money you will be allowed to live on, are you? Your work and the money gained from it are not representative of your true self! The act of working for money degrades the worker! So, by working you are degrading yourself. All that you are is undermined by forces out of your control.

You are all blasphemers! You mock yourselves with labor! I speak to this congregation about becoming a god to yourself, is this anyway to treat a god? NO!

No! No! No!

We cannot expect to repect ourselves on the inside and outside unless we respect ourselves at all times. So how can we remedy this? Should you all quit your jobs? Yes, for some of you. No, for some of you. Either way, one must refuse payment for their services or creations!

Yes! We will all be provided for!

Do not fear what some call 'poverty!'

For you must be an honorable example for the millions of others whom you must bring along with you. For if all men and women refused payemnt for their creations and serivces, then all of us would be satisfied. All that you want will be there for the having. Just as we must learn to depend on ourselves for our own self worth, we must rely on our fellow man for survival. Spread the word!

One day this world will be right again!