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I decided to look on the internet for synonyms for work. Are you ready? These are the first seven synonyms for work. Labor, toil, exertion, effort, slog, drudgery and the sweat of one's brow.

I wonder if those definitions of work sound about right to you. I mean, would you like to find more joy in your work? If so, stay tuned.

Your host is focused on the family president and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Well, today's guest Dr. Jeff Myers gave a fascinating message at a recent gathering of our staff and I'm excited to share it with you.

Jeff is the president of some ministries just down the road from a Syrian Colorado Springs and he really has a lot to say.

So we're going to get right to the content. And here now Dr. Jeff Myers on focus on the family. We're starting just after his opening remarks.

Now, a biblical worldview sometimes hard to come by when it comes to things like understanding the nature of our work every day.

But the bottom line is this. God is a working God. God worked in creation. He is working still.

And we are made in his image, the image of a working God. It's not just what we produce. It's what is produced in us.

That is a testimony to the rest of the world that there is meaning behind this whole thing.

And my first job outside of our family business was working at a grocery store.

I did not like the grocery business. I did not like my specific job, which was to take things that people purchased and put them in bags.

You know, don't put the eggs on the bottom kind of thing. And then to carry those bags out to their cars, whether this was in Kansas, so whether it was 105 degrees or whether it was five degrees.

It's always one or the other in Kansas. My job was to properly put their groceries in a bag and take them out to their car.

And I thought, this isn't very fun compared to my friends who work at the country club or my friends who work in cushy office jobs.

And so I mentioned this to my father once. That did not go well.

He said to me, son, you have a choice every single day to bring excellence to your work, to make your customers happy, to make your co-workers glad that they work with you.

I, to this day, don't know if it really made much of a difference in our store, but it sure made a difference inside of me.

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