Will Work for Gas presents a familiar encounter: a stranger in difficulty, offering work in return for help over a hump. Is the need genuine? Is the promise sincere? What do we owe someone whose circumstances we cannot verify? Compassion is seldom uncomplicated. Experience may teach us caution, making us wary; caution can harden into suspicion.
Jennifer approaches the encounter with compassion, finding weariness, companionship and dignity maintained under pressure.
This quietly confident work asks what standing on guard for one another means when trust is uncertain. How do we remain responsive to hardship without abandoning judgement? When does discernment protect us — and when does suspicion become permission to look away?
Will Work for Gas reminds us that kindness requires trust, and that trust carries risk: we may be deceived if we respond — but if we do not, we may turn away from someone in genuine need. Standing on guard for one another may require us to live within that uncertainty.
