This story ( and the photo) are about the importance of purposeful work for human beings. For the full story see BBC news here
A 104-year-old gardener is to retire after working on the land for 93 years.
But Jim Webber, of Stoke Abbott, Dorset, is to continue managing his own plot, growing vegetables for his own table and to sell any surplus to supplement his pension.The widower said that arthritis in his knees had made it difficult for him to work for other people.
He told the BBC: "I would do about 10 minutes and have to sit down, I couldn’t carry on. That wasn’t fair for the people I was working for."
The story reminds me of one of my favourite one line prayers. It was written as Vera Brittain’s epitaph:
"Lord give me work till my life is done, and life till my work is done."
And the 80 year old John Wesley, ‘Lord, let me not live to be useless.’ Now was that Wesley the Arminian, praying a prayer to be kept faithful and persevere in the Calvinistic work ethic?
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