Reversing the "Toilsome" Curse

It's been a long time since my last post here, but I intend to bring this blog back to life.  I enjoy writing, but it sits sadly low on my priority list.  So I created a work game to help myself write more.

Some times when I'm in my office (maybe prepping a Discipleship Group or building my partnership team) I need to be creative in order to help motivate myself to do certain tasks.  So I've created a game.  After completing a task, I get to throw a wrinkled up post-it note towards these three cups:

If I make it into the cup, then I get to do what the cup says.  These are all things I enjoy doing.  This is a double bonus, because these are all things that help to advance the Kingdom of God by investing in friendships that sustain me as a person and my work with InterVarsity.

After maybe ten missed throws, this blog post is the result of the first basket!

The curse that resulted from the fall of man (OK I'm going to have a teaching moment, don't go to Youtube) resulted in work becoming "toilsome."  I think that work was always meant to be fun and life-giving, not dreary or resistive to our efforts.  God works, and He doesn't "Work for the weekend."  Part of our role as His children is to join his efforts to overcome the effects of the curse.  So here's my attempt to enjoy my work.  I reward myself with something that is also technically work!