“There is always work before rest. If there is any rest in your life, it is because you or somebody else has worked first... life has no rest without previous work... when a society has more takers than givers, that society loses its peacefulness... Do you rest on the works of others, or do you work so others may rest? Our duty to those who have worked before us is to work for those who will come after us.” - Bob Schultz, Boyhood and Beyond
I was challenged by these words during my morning reading today. God had made it a principle from the beginning that hard work begets rest. Work produces respite and without labor there is no respite. It is an inexorable, indomitable, inescapable truth embedded into the very foundation of the world.
All rest is predicated upon hard work period.
We honor the hard work of others by working hard to maintain what they've achieved and to pass down more than we've received.
"People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.” -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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