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Our mission is simple: to provide a quick, daily prayer specifically to businessmen and women, who, like us, find prayer to be an inspirational tool in the management of our professional lives. We do this through our Morning Briefing email prayer service.
An interview of Executive Editor Leslie Bianco in EntreWorshippers: Conversations with Artists, Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders, Change Agents, and Risk Takers who Work by Faith and Impact Culture.
http://www.entreworship.com/leslie-bianco-embracing-prayer
Lord, let your art come forth through me
Most of us feel uncomfortable thinking of ourselves as artists, but we are. With every choice, every day, you are creating a unique work of art. Something that only you can do. Something beautiful and ephemeral. The reason you were born was to leave your own indelible mark on your personal world.Thank you, Lord, for the reminders that I am in very good company
Do not be afraid I am with you. I have called you each by name.Thank you, Lord, for the reminders that I am in very good company. Test for Aidan
Do not be afraid I am with you. I have called you each by name.Lord, let us acknowledge the many seasons a relationship with you entails
Mardi Gras, literally 'Fat Tuesday' has grown in popularity in recent years as a raucous, sometimes hedonistic event. But its roots lie in the Christian calendar, as the 'last hurrah,' before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. That's why the enormous party in New Orleans, for example, ends abruptly at midnight on Tuesday, with battalions of street sweepers pushing the crowds out of the French Quarter toward home.Lord, help me to move forward, too
Jesus went into the desert an unknown young carpenter from Nazareth, with thirty years of hidden life behind him. After the desert he returned to Galilee, and started to preach. Quickly he became a public figure, but he loved to withdraw to desert or mountain to recharge his energies by prayer. He moved forward like any of us, with no sure knowledge of what was to happen to him.For all those who inspire us, we pray
For 'the 43' - who I continue to pray for every day. I can't imagine a reason I would ever stop. They are: Vince Bianco, Father Joe Scerbo, Laura Dame, Mr. Beman, Mark Hammond, Michael & Lucy Joerger, Janice Leach, Sheila Sullivan, Erika Markel, Shelley Fyffe, Lynn Gallagher, Robin Wilder, Cathy Holiday, Sandy Marquez, Lu Durbin, The Ward Family, Kevin & Evelyn Flores, Arnold Steinberg, Patrice Sanchez, David & Nancy Paskowitz, Kathryn Downs, Pete & Eileen Smith, Milina & Jimmy Bianco, Shauna Hull, Janice Germaine, Lori Shelton-Jenks, Marybeth Robb, Tina Dorn-Brown, Rose & Vern Hand, Kathleen French, Autumn Esser, Irene Hung, Annette Berger, Shelly Thayer, Megan Bianco, Bailey Bianco, Pam Malchow, Cathy Lawson Kolbly, Robin & Kelly Richardson, Karen Burns, Angela Macabuhay, Chris Fritz, Angie Burns.Lord help us. We need your grace
How to Lose Customers and Alienate People: A cinema-chain employee responds with a rude e-mail to a customer complaint, and a Facebook boycott is born. Your company may have a strict social media policy, but that still doesn't make it immune to Facebook, Twitter, et al's special brand of justice.Let us pray for the success of our good work
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.Free us, Lord
Simplicity is Truth and Truth is simple.In appreciation of all those I will be introduced to today, I pray
Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have.Lord, may we find peace with the journey, wherever we are on it
Most of us have been too busy writing the story of our life in the first half to be able to read it. Attention to our own stories is partly forced on us by circumstances in the second half of life. Our children mature and move out, our colleagues retire and move on, our parents and friends grow old and pass away--all of these events focus our minds on who we are, how we've gotten here and where we're going.That our lifelong pursuit of knowledge continually brings us home to Scripture, we pray
Saint Patrick admitted freely to his lack of learning, writing that 'I blush and fear exceedingly to reveal my lack of education.' Nevertheless, he mastered the essentials of faith and grew very familiar with Scripture, although scholars have long questioned where his education was conducted.May we pay attention to all that our job requires today, we pray
Your job requires study, sensitivity and experience. But it bears with it a particular attention to truth, goodness and beauty. This makes us particularly close because the church exists to communicate truth, goodness and beauty 'in person.' It should be clear that we are all called, not to communicate ourselves, but rather truth, goodness and beauty.Lord, I look again to you for direction in my daily endeavors
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.Let us pray for those leaders who take a stand
Purim remembers the defeat of a plot to exterminate the Jews. The story of Purim is told in the biblical book of Esther. The heroes of the story are Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman living in Persia and her cousin, Mordecai, who raised her as if she was his daughter.Let us pray for those in the difficult, midpoint of a challenging endeavor
If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.That we find meaning among all the coping and adjusting, we pray
Life is much more than coping and adjusting. Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love: love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself.On the universal plea for companionship in this walk of ours, let us pray
I'm beat up by the numbers. The pressure to produce is unbelievable. I simply don't have the time or the resources to do it all.Let us pray for the souls that cause us worry
Worldwide, three people die every second, 180 every minute and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens after death, it means that more than 250,000 people everyday go either to Heaven or Hell.For those on the road, we pray
When you have been away, whether for a few days or for many months, it is a wonderful feeling to come home. We yearn for home. The people of every nation and culture celebrate the feeling of arriving home, because it is a foreshadowing of our final journey home to be with God in heaven for eternity.Let us keep moving, ever forward, we pray
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Let us pray especially for those in the midst of a long season in which they will take up their crosses
Sooner or later the Lord hands us a cross, and our job is to recognize it. Our sorrowful mysteries will be different for each of us. We try to see our life through the eyes of faith, with a confidence that God in his Providence can draw good out of the most awful and unwelcome happenings.For those completing a Lenten journey; may it fortify them for all that follows in life
The Paschal Triduum, often called the Easter Triduum or simply the Triduum, begins during Holy Week, and consists of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. This includes the Great Easter Vigil, the high point of the Triduum.Lord, make it possible in my workplace for us to pause in appreciation of the goodness of this Friday
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Loving and Gracious God, you are indeed the giver of all good gifts and we come together this day to seek your wisdom, guidance, courage and strength. Be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in our leadership. Give us insight to lead with integrity that our decisions may reflect what is right and good. Keep us from shortsightedness and pettiness. Help us to make decisions that strive to be for the good of all and guard us from blind self interest. Finally, dear Lord, grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say. All Glory be to you, loving God, now and forever. Amen.
Reverend Arthur A. Holquin, Pastor
Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, California
www.missionparish.org
Today O God we ask for your spirit to be at work in our midst, that you might stir up in us the gifts that we need to lead this company/organization with integrity and focus to the tasks at hand. Give us the courage to not only consider ourselves; but all those who are affected by the decisions we make. Help us to remember those who labor on our behalf, our employees and vendors and all those whose livelihood is connected to this company/organization. We give you thanks for our investors/stockholders who have placed their trust in us and we ask for courage and wisdom to be good stewards of both their trust and their resources. Help us in the midst of difficult decisions to have peace of mind, trust in your guidance, and look toward the long term goals of all whom we serve. Finally we give you thanks for this company/organization and ask that you might so guide us and our decisions that we might continue to serve you and the world through the work you have given us to do. In Jesus name. Amen
Pastor Jeff Frohner
Our Savior's Lutheran Church, San Clemente
California (www.oursaviorsonline.com)
Almighty and gracious God. We your children gather here to share, for the good of this organization, and the common good, the gifts and graces you have given us. As we plan the work of this organization, help us be mindful of your charge to us to be wise stewards of this world and its resources. We are responsible not just for money or success, but for the well being of all whom we employ, and all who use our products. Guide us so we think wisely, plan carefully, and act diligently for the life of our organization. Lead us always to make choices based on your teachings; let us remember that you wish us to practice justice and walk humbly with you. With your guidance we will Lord, work to serve you as we serve each other through the various agencies of this business. We acknowledge that all we have is a gift from your almighty hand. Direct us to make only those decisions and plans that honor the law you have given us, serve those people we represent, and establish an organization that has a moral and social conscience.
Reverend Elizabeth Griffin
United Church of Fairfax/St. Albans Bay UMC
Fairfax, Vermont (www.gbgm-umc.org/fairfaxvt)
Start a "time of prayer" in silence. The time of silence should allow people to open their hearts to God and to feel what it is that they need or are thankful for (or both) that day and for any other needs that may be directly associated with the upcoming meeting. The silence should be about one minute in length. Allow another minute for people to express "briefly" prayers of petition or thanksgiving e.g. "Lord, please bless my daughter and son in law expecting their first baby." The conclusion of this time can be closed simply with words similar to the following: "Lord, we pray that you hear these and all the prayers of our hearts this day and all the prayers of all people who call on your love, aid and mercy."
Fr. Bill Watson
President and Founder
Sacred Story Institute (www.sacredstory.net)
Seattle, WA
Direct, we beg you, O Lord, our actions by your holy inspirations, and carry them on by your gracious assistance, that every prayer and work of ours may begin always with you, and through you be happily ended. Amen
From "Timeless Prayers for Busy People,"
Legatus (www.legatus.org) an international
organization of practicing Catholic CEOs,
Presidents, Managing Partners and their spouses.
