This is Ruby she's a baker with a very
demanding boss.
He can be difficult to work with.
Ruby has been told that she
needs to create a new recipe for a cherry pie.
I offered to help Ruby feels
like work is a punishment she doesn't
understand that work is actually a gift
and the trust.
Genesis 215 says "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."
Ruby tries to keep all the
different parts of her life like
work, family, friends, hobbies, sports and church in separate little containers.
She feels like God only fits into the church container not realizing that God is in
all the ingredients of her life. When all
of these ingredients are placed into a
life of faith surrounded by Christ, it
all works together
Ruby's work as service to others and
provides value for the common good.  But
work in itself is services to others and provides value for the common good, but work in itself is also an ingredient of 
one service to Christ and ministry in the world.
We may think that only what we do in our church slice of life is
important to God.  Ruby like many people
needs to understand that all work is
important to God where you collect a
paycheck or not
stay-at-home moms, retirees, and church
volunteers all have their own work
everything we do is for God equally some
people elevate volunteer work in the
church or the work of a pastor as being
more important than other types of work
pastors are not the only people in
full-time ministry all work serves as a
ministry God is with us to every
challenge whether it's dealing with
coworkers, an unreasonable boss,
unreasonable demands, tensions between
life and work
ethical dilemmas, being underemployed, or
unemployed even when you're asked to
create a new recipe for cherry pie.  Often
Ruby forgets that God values all that
she does even a small things that no one
else sees like housework.  God also walks
with us and cheers us on when we excel
as our talents and spiritual gifts
connect with our work
Colossians 3:23 says, "Work it everything
you do with all your heart. Work as if
you were working for the Lord not for
human masters." Ruby finds rest in knowing
that all the slices of her life and work
have meaning and are connected in Jesus.
