Prayer For Sanity At Work
Dear Lord, grants us sanity during these very challenging times. We live in a time that brings many of us the unexpected and the unexplainable. Help us think with clarity, and guide us to behave with courage when the opportunity comes to change our difficulties. Amen
May today there be peace within.
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance.
It is there for each and every one of you.
Amen.
Almighty God, We bless you for our lives, we give you praise for your abundant mercy and grace we receive. We thank you for your faithfulness even though we are not that faithful to you. Lord Jesus, we ask you to give us all around peace in our mind, body, soul, and spirit. We want you to heal and remove everything that is causing stress, grief, and sorrow in our lives.
Please guide our path through life and make our enemies be at peace with us. Let your peace reign in our family, at our place of work, businesses and everything we lay our hands on.
Let your angels of peace go ahead of us when we go out and stay by our side when we return. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Dear God, today we pray for sanity. There's so much fear. I think of two of the wisest voices we have, Ta-Nehisi Coates (the best writer on race in America Between the World and Me), and Dr. Bobby Smith (handle Visions of Courage, a blind cop who was shot in the face at a highway checkpoint by a wanna-be cop killer). How I pray everyone could read their books.
One of the greatest blessings of my life was being Bobby's eyes to write his book The Will to Survive. He shared stories I'll never forget about how even the most pure-hearted cops struggle to keep their hearts open amidst so much pain. Imagine, you love a neighborhood and move into it with your wife. But on your rounds, you answer domestic abuse calls where in this house, a man bloodied his young wife; in another, a dog was abused, in one more, a cigarette was put out on a child's head. Suddenly the neighborhood/town is no longer a haven in this man's mind. Kids scream at him and call him PIG and there's nothing he can do.
That cop comes home from work and his wife, smiling, says: How was your day, baby? Does he tell her the truth? If he does, how will she handle his reality? Will she lose her sense of optimism and wonder? Will she fear her fellow man? Often, he silences his words, tries to handle his stress alone, to his mental and emotional detriment. Cops have some of the highest suicide, substance abuse, and divorce rates. And sometimesrarely, statisticallythey snap, become ticking time bombs of panic and fear and danger.
Fear, as we know, is what every black person alive feels in this country. To quote Ta-Nehisi in his letter to his son: And I am afraid. I feel the fear most acutely whenever you leave me. But I was afraid long before you, and in this I was unoriginal. When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid.
Thank you, God, for easing our fears. For filling our hearts with empathy, calm, and the light of your love.
Heavenly Father, please grant me peace of mind
and calm my troubled heart. My soul is like
a turbulent sea. I can't seem to find my balance
so I stumble and worry constantly. Give me the
strength and clarity of mind to find my purpose
and walk the path you've laid out for me. I trust
your Love God, and know that you will heal this stress.
Just as the sun rises each day against the dark of
night. Please bring me clarity with the light of God.
In your name I pray, Amen.
Almighty God, We bless you for our lives,
we give you praise for your abundant mercy and grace
we receive. We thank you for your faithfulness even
though we are not that faithful to you.
Lord Jesus, we ask you to give us all around
peace in our mind, body, soul and spirit.
We want you to heal and remove everything that is
causing stress, grief, and sorrow in our lives.
Please guide our path through life and make our
enemies be at peace with us. Let your peace reign in our family,
at our place of work, businesses and everything we lay our hands on.
Let your angels of peace go ahead of us when we go out
and stay by our side when we return. In Jesus' name, Amen.
The Lord is my boss, and I shall not want. He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me. He gently reminds me to pray and do all things without murmuring and complaining.
He reminds me that He is my source and not my job. He restores my sanity every day and guides my decisions, that I might honor Him in all that I do.
Even though I face absurd amounts of emails, system crashes, unrealistic deadlines, budget cutbacks, gossiping coworkers, discriminating supervisors, and an aging body that doesn't cooperate every morning, I still will not stop, for He is with me!
His presence, His peace, and His power will see me through. He raises me up, even when they fail to promote me. He claims me as His own, even when the company threatens to let me go.
His faithfulness and love are better than any bonus check. His retirement plan beats every 401K there is! And, when it is all said and done, I'll be working for Him a whole lot longer - and for that, I BLESS HIS NAME!!!
Amen.
Lord Jesus, as I enter this workplace,
I bring your presence with me.
I speak your peace, your grace, and your perfect order into the atmosphere of this office.
I acknowledge your lordship over all that will be spoken, thought, decided, and accomplished within these walls.
Lord Jesus, I thank you for the gifts you have deposited in me. I do not take them lightly, but commit to using them responsibly and well.
Give me a fresh supply of truth and beauty on which to draw as I do my job. Anoint my creativity, my ideas, my energy, so that even my smallest task may bring you honor.
Lord, when I am confused, guide me. When I am weary, energize me.
Lord, when I am burned out, infuse me with the light of your Holy Spirit.
May the work that I do and the way I do it bring hope, life, and courage to all that I come in contact with today.
And, Oh Lord, even in this day's most stressful moment, may I rest in you.
In the mighty name that is above all names, in the Matchless Name of my Lord and Savior Jesus I pray. Amen.