{"id":1325,"date":"2007-09-19T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/09\/voice-of-the-day-19.html"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T09:06:20","slug":"voice-of-the-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/09\/voice-of-the-day-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Hildegard of Bingen on Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let them direct to God the works that they do, because human work that is directed to God will shine in the heavens\u2026. For God created human beings and placed other creatures under them so that they might act on other creatures in such a way that God\u2019s good works would not be destroyed.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; Hildegard of Bingen<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>from &#8220;Book of Life\u2019s Merits&#8221; quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life by Hugh Feiss. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let them direct to God the works that they do, because human work that is directed to God will shine in the heavens\u2026. 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