Bruderhof Vow

Incidents like these are a chance to have contact with other people; one of our membership vows is the explicit promise to hash out our problems with people face to face. It is also true, though, that we sometimes just need to joyfully clean up a mess we did not make, or take on a task in addition to our normal work load. Last week one of the other families couldn’t manage their barn chore day and asked us to cover.

Source: Ian Barth - "Why I teach my sons about hard work", Voices blog entry on Bruderhof.com, 25 Jan 2017, http://www.bruderhof.com/en/voices-blog/2017/january/why-i-teach-my-sons-about-hard-work