Sunday, October 01, 2006

Prayer to Begin the Day

Jesus,

I desire to start this day with you. And yet, my mind keeps flitting to so many things:

...the projects I want to accomplish,
......the people I want to talk to,
.........the people I wish I didn't have to talk to.

...I wonder. Are these things distractions to spiritual concentration or invitations to see God in the ordinary?

I'm not sure. Jesus, I know that you are that Center who knows no distraction. So I offer up my mental fragmentation to you, O Lord my God.

May my scatteredness become your gatheredness.

As I'm contemplating a thousand things, Jesus, may I somehow be contemplating you.

Amen.

by Richard Foster, "Prayers from the Heart"

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