How Jesus' Work Helps Us Understand Our Work
Having understood our work through God's work, we now switch our attention to Jesus. Many of us know that Our Lord spent the first 30 years of His life in Nazareth. There He grew up under the watchful eyes of His mother Mary and foster father Joseph. We likely also know that Jesus learned to work assisting Joseph. After Joseph died, Jesus "took over," so to speak, the family business. Now we'll try to deepen our understanding of our work by looking more closely at Jesus work. Our guide, once again, will be Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. We learn that, in addition to the example of Joseph, Jesus also looked to His Heavenly Father, Who, as we've seen, was and is a hard worker. Do you remember when Mary and Joseph had to go looking for Jesus during one of their journeys to the Temple in Jerusalem? When they expressed dismay at His having caused such worry when He parted from them for a few days, Our Lord said: "How is it that you sought me? Did you not...