working in the fields

Whenever I read today’s Gospel, I feel for the workers who have been working right from the start. It seems like they put in so much more work than the rest of the workers and yet get the same thing. It just isn’t fair.

But we need to know what it is they are working for and what they are working for is God’s Kingdom. Thus those of us who have been working hard for it would hate it if somebody who just doesn’t work as hard gets exactly the same as we do. That is normal when we talk about work in a normal sense but this is about God’s work, which is very different.

In my opinion, when we do God’s work, we actually help ourselves more than we help God. We should delight in doing His work and so we shouldn’t complain about the results since we are going to get what we were promised anyway. You see, we have had the good fortune to spend all that time in the presence of the God we love and who loves us. We should just enjoy working for Him.

Another thing is that all we hear about the work was that they had to do it in the heat but what was the work? Maybe the work was playing soccer or singing or dancing around? Maybe it was painting a wall. You see, some people might paint a wall for money and those people would hate that other people get the same money as them who didn’t do the same amount of painting. Let us be the other group who knew what we would get for painting the wall but do it also because we want the wall to be pretty and colourful and because we just like expressing ourselves through painting walls.