Annie wants to hire Tom Booker to do a job, the way she would hire an interior designer to fashion her office. But Tom is not for sale, he is an artist who loves the land and loves the animal. He doesn't do it for hire. He does it for love. He does it because that is who he is.
Today is kind of the ugly sister of festival Sundays.
There is Christmas that gets all the attention, the festival day of the incarnation of God in human flesh. We don't celebrate a baby so much as we do that God became human. Then there is Easter, the highest holy day. It is the celebration of resurrection that God raised Jesus from the dead. Notice that both of those festival days point to God doing something to and in Jesus.