The Importance of Meaningful Work

Drive Thru History with Dave Stotts: in this clip from our American Holiday show, learn the history of Labor Day with Dave!

Meaningful work is one of the keys to personal responsibility, purpose, and self-worth. It instills in us a sense of accountability – the self-respect of providing for our families and engaging in our communities. There’s a connection between reward and accomplishment. There’s a dignity to our work. 

Work isn’t just about the production of value in the economic sense or even having money to live. As Pope John Paul II said, “Work is a good thing for man—a good thing for his humanity—because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes ‘more a human being.”

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