Does Anne Wilson Schaef's statement about the sacredness of work fit into a Biblical worldview?

I saw this quote today and it made me think: > Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning. > > Anne Wilson Schaef Going back to the Bible to think about this. Starting in Genesis 2: > 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Here we see the created purpose of humans is to work. God thinks work is a good thing for humans to do. Going to Genesis 3 > 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ > > “Cursed is the ground because of you; > through painful toil you will eat food from it > all the days of your life. >18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, > and you will eat the plants of the field. >19 By the sweat of your brow > you will eat your food >until you return to the ground, > since from it you were taken; >for dust you are > and to dust you will return.” In this we see work as a curse that comes after the fall. (Maybe you could read that God made work good, but it was broken by sin, and perhaps retains some of its original goodness by the common grace of God - but that is stretching this passage too far I think). In 2 Thess 3 we read: > 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." > > 11 We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. > > 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat. Here we see that work is a necessity for life, it is the means by which we have food to eat. In Ephesians 4:28 we read: > 28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. Here we see the necessity of work to provide for those in need. The broader themes we draw out from the Bible here are work as a necessity, work as a curse. Perhaps that work has fallen from what it was designed to be. I don't find Anne Wilson Schaef's quote quite fits into this framework. My question is: **Does Anne Wilson Schaef's statement about the sacredness of work fit into a Biblical worldview?**