Leeds Liverpool Canal

The Leeds-Liverpool canal, which snakes by my town, was a product of the industrial revolution, and largely dates to the 1790s. Upon it was carried over a million tons of coal per year in the nineteenth century. It took hard work to construct it, and required more hard work to use it. Yet when I walked along it the other night, I was struck by the beauty and tranquillity of its form and route. Easy to say, perhaps, when I am not required to heave coal aboard its narrow boats, yet something borne of grit and sweat is now one of the wonders of northern England and a delightful feature of my borough.

Because the rich prefer idleness, we tend to think that inactivity is something to be envied, but it is not. God designed us to ‘do’ as well as to ‘be’; we are meant to be active and serviceable, wherein real beauty may be found. 

In all labour there is abundance: but the talk of the lips bringeth only want. Proverbs 14:23, Geneva Bible

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