The work in front of you today is a form of worship you can actually do.

There is an old idea that no honest work is beneath dignity, that a well-swept floor and a well-argued case are offered to the same God with the same seriousness.

This is not about doing more. It is about doing what is already yours with attention, as though the quality mattered to someone beyond your supervisor. Attention is the offering.

It removes the anxiety and the performance at once. You are not earning approval and you have nothing to prove. You are returning something good with the hours you were given.