Reflection Starter from St. John Paul II

"Awareness that man's work is a participation in God's activity ought to permeate, as the Council teaches, even 'the most ordinary everyday activities. For, while providing the substance of life for themselves and their families, men and women are performing their activities in a way which appropriately benefits society. They can justly consider that by their labour they are unfolding the Creator's work, consulting the advantages of their brothers and sisters, and contributing by their personal industry to the realization in history of the divine plan.'" - Pope Saint John Paul II (in “Laborem exercens” [on Human Work])