The Laziness Lie

Were we all sold a bill of goods when it comes to ‘working hard’?

Adrienne Gibbs
ZORA
Published in
3 min readApr 5, 2021

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Photo: Brandy Kennedy on Unsplash

I’ve long thought about the intersection of work and spirituality. Every Sunday at church, in addition to gospel music, we would solemnly sing all four verses of a hymn. Usually those hymns were about work. This one in particular stems from a Bible verse. The hymn’s name is “Work, for the Night Is Coming.”

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Adrienne Gibbs
ZORA
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Director of Content @Medium. Award-winning journalist. Featured in a Beyoncé reel. Before now? EBONY, Netflix, Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe.