Pocket Prayers for Work
By Mark Greene
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Mark Greene
Mark Greene is the Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Before that he was Vice-Principal and Lecturer of communications at the London School of Theology. And before that he spent ten years working in advertising in London and New York, a fact he is still prepared to admit.
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Pocket Prayers for Work - Mark Greene
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The compiler and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce copyright material in this anthology. Every effort has been made to trace owners of copyright material and the compiler apologizes for any inadvertent omissions. Full acknowledgement will be made in future editions.
Extracts from the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV) are copyright © 1973, 1978 and 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Publishers. All rights reserved. (pp. 1, 47)
Extracts from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition (NRSV): © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. (pp. 1, 53, 60, 64, 66)
The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England: from the Collect for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity in Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (p. 73). Extract beginning ‘All that I am, Lord’ is from the Oswald Liturgy and extract beginning ‘Teach us, dear Lord’ is arranged from Psalm 90 by Jim Patterson (originally published by Youth With a Mission in The Singing Word it was used in Midday Prayer), are both in Andy Raine and John T. Skinner (compilers), Celtic Daily Prayer from the Northumbria Community, originally published by HarperCollins and reproduced by permission of the Northumbria Community (pp. 7, 23).
The prayer beginning ‘I am not well, Lord’ is copyright © Lynne Chitty and reproduced by permission (p. 55).
The prayer beginning ‘Be in my heart, O Jesus’ is from Poems by Saltair (edited by Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, with English translations by Desmond Forristal) and is reproduced by permission of Columba Press, Dublin (p. 11).
Prayers beginning ‘May God bless your work’, ‘O Father in heaven’, ‘We pray for all those who’, ‘Bless employers’ federations’, ‘We commit our work to you’, ‘Bless all those who work’, ‘We believe in God’, ‘Living God’ and ‘May God bless your work’, are copyright © John Lovatt, orginally published by the Industrial Christian Fellowship and reproduced by permission (pp. 1, 31, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81).
CONTENTS
Title
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prayers before work
Through the day, through the week
Issues facing workers today
Biblical reflections
Congregational prayers
Copyright
OH, YOU GOTTA GET A GLORY
IN THE WORK YOU DO;
A HALLELUJAH CHORUS
IN THE HEART OF YOU.
PAINT OR TELL A STORY,
SING OR SHOVEL COAL,
BUT YOU GOTTA GET A GLORY,
OR THE JOB LACKS SOUL.
Anon
INTRODUCTION
We spend a great deal of our lives working – working at home at a whole variety of tasks, working in factories and fields, in offices and trucks, working at school as we study, working in churches, and working for clubs and volunteer organizations.
And it’s meant to be that way. Human beings were designed by God for purposeful activity for the benefit of humankind and the care of creation – for his glory. Of course, work is not always