mojo or nojo?

Work is the engine that drives production. It is that labor of mind, body and will that gives birth to result. This engine needs fuel to run. As one classmate remarked recently, every action, word and deed burns a little life. The work-engine will run either on one of two substances.

Mojo
I define mojo (n.) in the following ways:

1. The energy to produce.
2. The desire to do.
3. The erotic vitality to create, the muse, the imago dei imitating the Creator’s activity.
Mojo is a spiritual substance. It is created by contact with the Holy and those things the Creator has built in as buttons to bring us to life. It is the genius that hears the bat qol the echoes of divine whisperings.

In absence of mojo
In absence of soul mojo the work-engine will burn naked soul, sucking the life from the working person and offering barriers to contact with the Holy.

Work maybe for profit or not. It may be professional or merely routine effort. Some kinds of work are more prone to sucking soul, as some engines burn oil. As this fuel is intrinsically spiritual – soulful – the worker can be employed even in soul sucking work if through contact with the Holy, discipline and formation, the worker substitutes mojo as the fuel for work. This requires constant attention to the presence of God, as the great engineer of work, Brother Lawrence demonstrated.