Happy Labor Day!
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. (Gen. 2:15).
Enjoy your day off.
See you Tuesday.
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Daily Broadside | Find Satisfaction in Your Work
Daily Verse | Ezekiel 23:29-30
“Your lewdness and promiscuity have brought this upon you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.”
Monday’s Reading: Ezekiel 29-32
Happy Labor Day!
Enjoy the day off and remember that “A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God” (Ecc. 2:24).
See you Tuesday.
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Daily Broadside | Labor Day Edition 2021
Daily Verse | Ezekiel 28:15
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day, 2021.
Last year I shared what I had discovered about the origins of Labor Day. Briefly, Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader, is credited with suggesting the idea for Labor Day in early 1882. The first Labor Day was held on September 5 that same year in New York City, with some 10,000 workers marching in a parade held at Union Square in Manhattan. Congress passed an act in 1894 recognizing the first Monday in September as Labor Day. We’ve celebrated Labor Day ever since.
So welcome to the 127th celebration of Labor Day.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
— Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
May your day be filled with the enjoyment of the fruit of your labors.
