Breakfast will always start one’s day right. I remember when I was growing up, Mama would never let us leave the house until we had a hot breakfast; we simply had to eat. I’m afraid to say that I haven’t kept up the practice. I get ready for work and rush out the door. In the process, I think I may have screwed up my eating habits!
I am a Christian by faith and a Protestant Methodist by denomination. I am proud to say I grew up in church, and I am thankful that I did. Living away from everyone I love can be difficult, to say the least. When you are, essentially, alone, there is very little to cling to: and for me it was my God and my faith in the God that sustains me. I am thankful to be blessed with a faith that strengthens me and I am blessed because my faith in my God has sustained me during the toughest times of my life. It has been challenging living away from everything familiar but that in itself has strengthened my faith.
I walk past the Chelmsford cathedral everyday as I walk to work and everyday I whisper a prayer for God to bless my day, for God to take control of my day, for God to help me achieve what I need to achieve, and my most fervent desire, for me to be a blessing to others. Somehow those words quickly whispered set my day off perfectly. Because I lift my day up to the Lord, whatever good, whatever bad, my day is the Lord’s.
I am reminded of a prayer I used to read and reread. It was a prayer I posted in my old blog. It was a prayer for concentration at work because the work environment then wasn’t conducive to concentration (there was a lot of swearing going around and being in an environment where profanity and bad language is about is never conducive to real positivity, I think!). It was based on a prayer I also read online and a prayer that I adapted so that it fit my thoughts. It’s helped me. I thought I’d post it here again, because it might help someone else.
Dear Father,
I draw near You to seek Your help. I have the assurance that You love me so very much. Lord, the Scripture says that You love the prosperity of Your children. You know the importance of being able to concentrate at work. Father, bless me with Your guidance and let me work on my things to do list properly. Lord, I confess that I get distracted easily; I have more interest in less important things instead of what is urgent in my in-tray.
Please forgive me and gird me with You grace (I love the word gird Lord, because it makes me feel like I am going to battle, and oh I do love a battle! See Lord, I am digressing, yet again!) and strength so that I concentrate in my work. Without Your help I cannot achieve any success Lord!
Please help me to overcome all my weaknesses and strengthen my mind. Take full control of my wandering thoughts and give me Your wisdom and knowledge. Let me shine at work, Heavenly Father and let me be a blessing to to everyone. I lift all this up in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
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