{"id":59274,"date":"2015-10-13T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=59274"},"modified":"2015-10-12T22:56:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T05:56:34","slug":"prayer-before-starting-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/prayer-before-starting-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer before starting work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the books I read during my sabbatical was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Practice-Presence-God-Teachings\/dp\/1434410137\" target=\"_blank\">Practice of the Presence of God<\/a>\u00a0by Brother Lawrence, a lay Carmelite who inspired so many people by his simple, practical approach to spirituality, which focuses on always being mindful of God, even throughout everyday tasks, such as doing the washing up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59371\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/brother-lawrence.jpg\" alt=\"brother-lawrence\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/brother-lawrence.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/brother-lawrence-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/brother-lawrence-600x408.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u00a0my sabbatical ended and I start back at work.\u00a0Inspired by this Carmelite&#8217;s book, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to begin each workday with the prayer which Brother Lawrence mentions in the book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">Before beginning any task I would say to God, with childlike trust: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;O God, since You are with me, and it is Your will that I must now apply myself to these outward duties, I beg You, assist me with Your grace that I may continue in Your Presence; and to this end, O Lord, be with me in this my work, accept the labour of my hands, and dwell within my heart with all Your Fullness&#8221; <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8211; Brother Lawrence, Practice of the Presence of God<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the books I read during my sabbatical was Practice of the Presence of God\u00a0by Brother Lawrence, a lay Carmelite who inspired so many people by his simple, practical approach to spirituality, which focuses on always being mindful of God, even throughout everyday tasks, such as doing the washing up. Yesterday\u00a0my sabbatical ended and I start back at work.\u00a0Inspired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3312,3342,3341,3340,876],"class_list":["post-59274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-brother-lawrence","tag-labor","tag-labour","tag-practice-of-the-presence-of-god","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59476,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274\/revisions\/59476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}