Comments on: My Dirty Little Secret For Happy Knowledge Work https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Good Reads: May 26 | the hub https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45857 Sun, 25 May 2014 17:18:01 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45857 […] How to be Happy in ‘Knowledge Work’ – For those of you who work in industries that are particularly ‘virtual,’ and where ‘knowledge’ is the product and not some kind of visible handiwork, this article is for you. Personal note: I think I just figured out why I like to work in my yard so much. […]

]]> By: Michael Brad https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45853 Sat, 24 May 2014 03:19:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45853 Dr. Murray, this post has been a great encouragement to me! It’s funny, my pastor and I had a conversation a few weeks ago about this exact thing. He told me that one of the most helpful things he has done over the past few years of ministry is take time throughout the week to work in his garden. It gives him the opportunity to work and see the fruit of his labor. For me, I write music. It gives me the opportunity to create and work, finding joy in how every measure I write points (I hope and pray) to the beauty of God.

Thank you again for the post!

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]]> By: William McQuade https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45845 Fri, 23 May 2014 02:52:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45845 Dr Murray, when my wife and I visited the seminary earlier this year it was a high point in our lives to sit in your class . It was an especial blessing to me to hear my mother tongue too! As a prospective student I am thoroughly looking forward to sitting under your tutelage.

I clean windows for a living. I get to experience peoples amazement that glass can get so clean. There is job satisfaction in that but it is temporal. Your job satisfaction will come at the end of this vale of tears. You just have to wait a little longer than the rest of us!

]]> By: Ryan Higginbottom https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45843 Fri, 23 May 2014 00:59:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45843 Dr. Murray: I love this! One of my favorite activities during graduate school (mathematics) was vacuuming the carpet in our apartment. There was something very satisfying about seeing the newly-cleaned strips on the floor when I wasn’t exactly sure if the day had been otherwise productive. Thanks!

]]> By: a. https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45842 Thu, 22 May 2014 15:55:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45842 be blessed today :)

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves. He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the
work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. Eccl 3: 9 -13

O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Let Your work (including even Your work in/thru us) appear to Your servants and Your majesty to their
children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; and confirm for us the work of our hands;Yes,
confirm the work of our hands. Psalm 90: 14,16-17

]]> By: wilma https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45840 Thu, 22 May 2014 12:48:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45840 It’s more than okay. It’s necessary and wonderful. God wove us together, body and soul. Being made in the image of God, we desire to create as he did. We need to remind our spiritual selves of the physical self that relishes tangible creativity. Projects are as needful to the body and mind, as pursuit of the spiritual is to the soul. The lessons of life and the satisfaction generated by creativity, surely need not be confined to the study.

]]> By: Eric Mason https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/22/one-secret-to-happy-knowledge-work/#comment-45839 Thu, 22 May 2014 12:20:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17838#comment-45839 Absolutely! This was one of the hardest transitions for me going from farming to pastoral ministry. You pull up to a field and know what needs to be done. You finish and you can clearly see what you’ve accomplished. Ministry is very different. Labor, often without visible results.

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