It produce products and goods. It gives birth to ideas and solves human problems. Work can bring enormous joy and beauty to people's lives. Without it we have little satisfaction or accomplishment. Work allows us to labor side by side with people regardless of their gender, age, race, or religion.
Work also earns wages that put food on the table and pay the rent.
For we humans sometimes get trapped into thinking that we must solve all problems or get everything done. For Diehl spirituality of work begins with us. We need to begin to search for God in our places of work. St. Benedict, the 6th century founder of Western monasticism, impressed upon his monks the words Ora et Labora, Prayer and Work. He advanced a spirituality that valued prayer and work.