Pastor John, I know you appreciate Dorothy Sayers and what she has to say about vocation.

In the next few moments, would you share with us a little bit about what you have learned

from her about work?

Dorothy Sayers died in 1957 and when I was a senior in college in 1968, I think it was February.

I read her book Mind of the Maker and was riveted by it.

I had fallen in love with language and writing when I was in the 11th grade and now a senior

in college and I read this book about the connection between God's mind and God's

trinitarian nature and God's creativity in making the world and making us in this image

and then our being co-creators with him, makers.

And the more I thought about it and then just recently thinking about it again, the more

amazing it is to me that we have been both made and remade in Christ to be makers.

In other words, when God put Adam and Eve in the garden, he put them there to take what

he had made.

They don't create out of nothing and then create something out of it, make something

good and beautiful and useful out of it.

And then we lost our capacities to serve righteousness and he's remaking us and then

he gets to Ephesians 2 and we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus 4 good works.

And then I did a little thinking and poking around and noticed that the Greek word for

do is the same word as make.

From which we get the word poem and we are his workmanship is the word for poem or made one and it

has hit me that virtually everything we do in life is the making of something into something

else.

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