In the same essay, you characterize the Christian attitude toward things as a double movement of enjoyment and renunciation. This is something I learned from C. S. Lewis, especially from his novel, Perelandra, and his great ethical work, The Four Loves . Simply renouncing possessions recommended as a general principle for everyone, always, rather than as a possible course for some people, at some particular time - is, in a sense, turning away from the good gifts that God offers us. Such gifts are not to be renounced as much as they are to be offered back to the one from whom they came. So possessions are to be received with thanksgiving and enjoyed as gifts.
Renunciation is also necessary.
One enjoys these good things because God gave them, and they point us toward him. One renounces them because, finally, they are not the Giver, the One in whom our hearts are to rest. And some manner of movement back and forth between these two poles is necessary not for the sake of merely enjoying or renouncing but for being drawn out of ourselves toward God, which this double movement makes possible. Its Meaning and Its Limits. First, I would say that I do not think that work necessarily has to have meaning.