Eden Economy
God introduces work in Eden. In Eden our work is to tend the trees that give us life. God makes the Garden. God makes the trees, makes us, makes the trees to bear fruit, makes the fruit to cause life in us. Our work: join God in tending these trees that feed us, that bring life to us. We tend the trees God makes. We eat the fruit from the trees we tend, and it gives us life. This is the economy of Eden. Our work is a means of grace* that brings life to us and to others. Life has so many dimensions, so much depth. We benefit from understanding this. We experience loss when we lose sight that our work is a means of grace whose purpose is to bring live - full life, abundant life - to us and to others. We experience loss when our work is not performed or managed for its true purpose. God provides the ground, framework, conditions, materials, principles, intelligence, energy, motivation, creativity for our work. God creates work. God assigns work to us, affording us the beyond-imagining- privilege of participating with God in the ongoing care of creation God’s continuing creation in the world God’s continuing creation of us. We work with what God creates. It does not start with us. * Grace: when God does something for us, in us, or through us that we could not do on our own. Means: an instrument, a tool Means of grace: something God uses to continue creating in us or through our living.
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