Our Rational Nature Calls Us To Work
Let's now look at how work preserves our lives and satisfies our material and spiritual needs. We begin by considering how our rational nature calls us to work. In Working Your Way into Heaven , Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski reminds us that we come into this world basically unprepared. While our parents or guardians may teach us to walk and talk, it's when our reason awakens that we begin to perceive our potential in life. God, who created us body and mind, has given us a rational nature to help us fend for ourselves. We do this when we work... ...(Work is) the indispensable means for the maintenance and preservation of life. As a result of this, everything by which man is served is prepared by work for direct use. Just look around to see the fruits of your labor and the labor of your fellow man. Our work gives value to things, adapts them to our needs. ...work gives us a chance to satisfy hunger and thirst; it shelters us, raises a roof over our heads; it makes...