Doing things well

I was struck by this quote of Martin Luther King’s when I came across it years ago. I was reminded of it today via Seth Godin’s blog.

Craftsmanship

Find a calling and then deliver.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King.

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It’s a challenging perspective.

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Eivind Algrøy

True that, challenging and inspiring. Maybe even more challenging for the street sweeper, then for a public figure such as King?
Tony Watkins

Good point, though I seem to recall that the monastic Rule of Benedict included the idea of even the most menial tasks being seen as worship.