A prayer for colleagues
Dear God,
Tomorrow is the end of my freedom as I know it. After 5 years of freelancing, traveling and having full control over my schedule; tomorrow I find myself persuaded by circumstances and the owner of a print company to take a job.
Before I begin working, there are some issues I would like to talk through with you.
Obviously I will have less personal time than before and I hope that you open opportunities for me to complete my personal tasks during work hours. This will enable me to spend more time with my family after hours if I so wish to. If I don’t wish to spend time with them (which is most often the case) I have this spare time to spend at my leisure.
I hope god that you have prepared my future colleagues hearts there to accept me and love me so we can have an easy transition and so my work load will be minimal.
Lord you can see that many of my friends are already earning large wages. I pray Lord that You would grant me favour so that I may also have a salary as high as theirs. I pray You would give me the skills enabling me to surpass their wages even.
I ask for this, not for myself but so that my friends can see how You have blessed me that they would be urged in their hearts to convert to Christianity.
And Lord, I will need patience. Please supply me with this in abundance, because I know that I will have to put up with many incompetent fellow workers and bosses.
Lord, I won’t come see you for another 3 days. Tomorrow I will be far too tired after my first full day of work and the following day is a public holiday. I wish to make the most of it.
Actually maybe we can meet again in a week or so.
I’ll call you.
~ Nathaniel