But where does it say that the dignity of work depends upon being paid for it? If that were the case, then a whore selling her wares on a seedy street corner would claim greater dignity than my grandmother could who stretched a poor income to clothe and feed and in innumerable unnamed ways to bless my parents and their fourteen siblings between them. That makes no sense.
Anthony Esolein in Out of the Ashes
Serving God
We can serve God whatever work we do. That truth should also free us from guilt. It is especially common among parents. They are so busy feeding babies throughout the night and throughout the day, changing nappies and ferrying children here, there and everywhere that they do not have the time or energy they used to have to study the Bible or get involved in programmes at church, As they look at some of their friends who still read the Bible and pray for one hour every day and are at church meeting two evenings a week, they think to themselves: ‘I’m not doing enough for the Lord.’ But we are not only serving Christ when we are at church or have a Bible open in front of us. Parenting is Christian service; it is a job entrusted to mothers and fathers by God. That is true of all our work.
– Vaughan Roberts in God’s Big Design.