Bruderhof writings on work

[Bruderhof Web Team]

Work can be a benefit, and even a form of worship, as these essays and
articles from the Bruderhof website ( www.bruderhof.com ) show. As Kahlil
Gibran says:

"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…For if you
bake with indifference, you bake a bitter bread."

Here and Now
Eberhard Arnold
Those who turn their thoughts away from the physical world and set all of
their hopes on life after death are counterfeiters of truth. The new
redemption is intended for us. The new will is to be realized here on
earth!
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ea/HereAndNow.htm

Action in Waiting
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
If you look for the truth in small matters you will not go astray in big
ones. If you always try to be heavenly and spiritually minded, you won't
understand the everyday work God has for you to do.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/bl/ActionInWaiting.htm

Community as Work
Eberhard Arnold
From the microscopic to the cosmic, the natural world shows us something
we all know but often forget. There is no life apart from community.
Separation is death. How is it, that in the midst of a natural order
based on mutual help, among the highest living beings there is the most
intense mutual enmity and killing?
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ea/CommunityAsWork.htm

Jesus and the Future State
Eberhard Arnold
A person who feels estranged from nature is sick. Healthy people long to
exercise their bodies, to do simple farm work, to be in the sun and the
light; to make friends with woods and mountains, to touch plants and
animals, to feel the soil.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ea/FutureState.htm

Gifts
J. Heinrich Arnold
You may be the most gifted person, but if you lack humility, if your
heart is not moved by the spirit of Jesus, your life will be unfruitful.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ha/Gifts.htm

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