It is the time when my department conducts its annual feedback exercise to solicit feedback from clients on the quality of our services.  Although I’ve not done anything significantly different at work this year (and in fact have been a little careless of late), I’m pleasantly surprised to learn that several clients have commended me personally on my work.  Although this won’t earn me a promotion (I can’t be promoted, thanks to the anal retentive HR policies of the organisation - anyone want to offer me a job ?), I am grateful that my faithful toiling (lack of talent notwithstanding) has not gone unnoticed.  As a matter of faith I also take this to be a pat-on-the-back from my Heavenly Father, because when I remember I try to excel at what I do so that I may somehow glorify Him through it.

"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody". (1 Thessalonians 4 : 11 - 12)

"… whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God". (1 Corinthians 10 : 31)