Skillful effort

"That the worst time becomes the best is interesting, but hardly ideal. That the best times, the safe and affluent ones, become the worst poses other challenges, of how to maintain a sense of purpose and solidarity in the absence of emergencies, how to stay awake in softer times. The religious language of awakening suggests we are ordinarily sleepers, unaware of each other and of our true circumstances and selves. Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful effort keeps us awake." (A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit, 2009; page 119). 

Here is a clear expression of the biblical program: to apply the skillful effort in times of feast to keep the society awake to the character of the relationships that bind its members together.