64 – “Fruitful Seasons of Work”

Our metaphors matter. When we are in the throes of a busy schedule, our culture encourages us to “crank it out” in order that we might emulate the hard worker who remains steadfast “like a machine”. We are encouraged to “recharge” with enough sleep and “fuel up” with caloric intake only so that we can be all the more efficient the next day. The problem with this metaphor is obvious: We are, in fact, not machines. Embodied creaturely life is organic, not mechanical. In this episode, Joshua and Mike remind us that our work should be aiming for “fruitfulness”, not efficiency, because all good work has latent within it the seeds of further fruit.

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64 – “Fruitful Seasons of Work” is an episode from The Mortise & Tenon Podcast by Mortise & Tenon Magazine.

This episode is 00:54:17 long.

This episode was published on Aug 5, 2023.

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