Tick Tock

So I found an interesting article in my girly magazine. OK, its not the type of “girly” magazine you might be thinking of. It Wallpaper, which I call girly because although it is an architect and design 

magazine it also will features fashion. I read it because architecture and design inspires much of my art and so I will be looking at some latest, greatest in Dubai and turn the page to see the latest designs in ladies footwear, and I don’t know about you but its kind of hard being all manly while looking at fashion, I feel a touch sissy. 

Anyway, one of the latest articles was about a merging of work and life. It was about the current debate around some possible new legislation that protects the 35 hour work week in France. Yes 35 hour work week. I guess I didn’t realize that 1. They did a 35hr work week and 2. That it was protected. They also made comments on the abusiveness of the US work culture from weekly hours too skimpy vacation time. It kind of got me thinking especially in light of the resent sermons around stewardship of our time etc. (wise servant, 3rd soil).  At first it kind of got my Mennonite work ethic back hair up in a knot thinking, how do they get anything done working only 35 hrs, and how can you earn a living like that as well?  But you can’t help but think about how there is a butch of people that see this as a healthy rhythm of life and work and that as a country have decided to cut back in order to maintain this healthy lifestyle. That means there may be some lack of productivity and therefore maybe a lower standard of living, I don’t know, but to them it is worth fighting for. Now we can debate what is a healthy workload but just think for a moment what would you would do with the extra time? By voluntarily cutting back having a lifestyle change what could you accomplish for the kingdom?  Maybe there is something to it, at least worth taking some time to ponder.