How Work Shapes Your Spirit

An address by our Minister, Rev. Rob MacPherson - recorded on Sunday,20th October, 2019 in the Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide. In today's address, Rob explores how work and the spiritual life have interacted historically; how human expectations about our working lives have changed in a post religious age - especially the relatively new freedom to choose the nature of our work, understanding work as spiritual practice and the even newer expectation that work is expected to be fulfilling - able to shape a person's soul and the need for patience and diligence - all the things that are good for the human soul. Rob asks: "How do you think your chosen work has shaped you? How might your work have helped or hindered your spiritual growth?" And as we begin our search for a new Minister, Rob also asks us to reflect on Ministry work, and to consider how it has shaped - or might shape - our spiritual life as a community. We need to think carefully, critically, wisely and informedly about the nature of Ministry-work - as Work - and how WE might all work together with a new Minister to Grow as a Spiritual Community.