God’s Covenant of “Work” It was around 1990 I began researching and writing materials for parents to help them teach their kids how to work and how to treat it as a “calling” from God. I started my own company, “Joblink” for which I had great dreams and ambitions. I self-published a book, “Choosing Your Life’s Work” In those days I knew nothing about Amazon.com and personal websites. So, I did my best to market the old-fashioned way–pounding the pavement, doing lectures and

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3) I built my first commercial vacuum sweeper in 1990. I was working for my friend Tom’s company at the time and he was launching a new business in the asbestos industry, manufacturing and selling “high efficiency” vacuums for

Roger in His Earthly Garden in 1975 A Reflection on Ephesians 5:15-17 My dad (as his dad before him) loved gardening. This picture from around 1975 shows him in his element in a massive flower garden he toiled to create in our backyard. Notice I said, “toiled.” I used that word intentionally because though it was a labor of love it was still labor. He is now in the Heavenly Garden so I can’t ask him, but I know the cultivation and maintenance of that backyard garden took year