In his address at one of TGC’s conferences, Tim Keller said, “The way to do work as a Christian is to do it well. If you are a Christian airline pilot, what does it mean to be a truly Christian airline pilot? Land the plane. Smoothly.” Keller went on to explain: “Even if you don’t have a job that’s really exciting, even though you might tend to be bored with it, [if you have] the right theology, you know [that] what I’m doing matters.”

I don’t pilot a daily commuter flight, but my own work as an editor can seem just as repetitive. In conversations with others, I’m often tempted to qualify my job so they don’t think it’s more glamorous than it is. “I fix people’s commas for a living,” I shrug. But, as Keller’s words reminded me, even fixing commas is not insignificant. I serve a God who speaks with clarity and precision, and he is glorified by human sentences that do the same.

Whatever work you do, I hope you’ll take a moment to read Dan Doriani’s helpful article: “I ‘Just’ Do Ordinary Work.” In it, Doriani elevates ordinary work to an act of glorifying God and loving our neighbors. His essay is an encouragement to everyone who sweeps floors, makes widgets, or corrects misplaced modifiers, nudging us to “move from ‘I just’ to ‘I make a difference—at least in my corner of the world.’”