“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” – John 5:17

As we begin this joyous season of Easter, we hear these words of Jesus. How tempting it is to relegate this passage from John to the archives of history! But let us realize that they are as relevant now as they were 2,000 years ago-ours is a God of work, a God who is constantly creating anew in us and in our world, a God who beckons us to work alongside with our own skills and passions and dreams.  Now, in this Easter season, bolstered by our hope in the Risen Christ, we set out to do this good work.

Let us pause, then, and think over our own work. Do we recognize God’s hand in the tasks we are given to do? Do we embrace Jesus’ call to keep working, to enter into relationship with a Creator God who never tires? Or do we allow ourselves to give in to our frustrations, to deem a task frivolous or beneath us, to take the easy way out? Do we fail to allow God to use our efforts-no matter how seemingly small!-for God’s own greater glory?

As we are made in the image and likeness of God our Creator, so, too, are we called to create. This is a right of every person, the avenue through which each human being is able to more fully reveal God’s glory in the world. How will we, during this Easter season, liberate that which is holy hidden in the world around us?