Many of us can't wait for the weekend to come along as an escape from work. Our craving for the weekend implies an often unspoken condemnation of the workaday week. This is deeply troubling, for it suggests worker lives that are anxious, depressed, dispirited, complacent, or even hostile. Consider in this context the words of Wendell Berry: "To work without pleasure and affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for...."
- Norman Wirzba
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