Reaching Lakeside

 Many of us are doing something different for this Labor Day weekend and before we get back into our routine, I wanted to encourage you to pause a moment and examine the role that labor and rest play in our routines. For me, this is my peak season at work.   Recruiting work in general is a sentence that doesn’t have a period.   There is always someone that could be hired, strategy that can be worked on – in short, work to be done.   With peak season, if I wanted I could work from 6 in the morning to 10 at night all week and go to bed knowing there is more that can be done.   Maybe you can relate to this.   I can see my wife Laura with our sons, Bert and Benji, working on school plans, taking care of their needs -- sometimes getting up at 6am and staying up until 10pm.   And with our kids, if we choose to, we could always go to bed feeling like there is more to be done.   So where does Christ fall into our work – and our rest? Our Work Co...