God, you initiated our work through your work. You created all things and called them good. May we be grateful for the goodness of your creation and find goodness in our work of co-creating with you.
Ground us in knowing that our work is ultimately about relationships: in providing for ourselves and our families while serving the communities in which we live.
May we be aware of the trends in our contemporary workplaces so we can respond to the needs of our current day. Yet, keep us from discouragement that the way things are is the way things will always be.
Give us the courage to act justly, O God, when inequities and abuses are present in our workplaces. Help us to be collaborators in creating healthy environments for employers, employees and those they serve.
Lord, direct our Saturdays or Sundays of worship toward the Mondays in our lives. Help us to integrate our lives in such a way that our work honors our faith, and our faith strengthens our work.
Inspire us to not see ourselves as the sum total of our work, but as the living out of our life purpose, embracing all the dimensions of our human existence and our place in your world.
Lastly, O God, visit your grace upon those who are unemployed but seeking work, underemployed and cast in a misfit role, and those whose time of active employment may be behind them but yearn to know your purpose and meaning for their lives.
Amen.
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