Every 15 minutes between 7.30am and 9.15am, a 10 minute session of reflection begins which includes bible passages, meditations, music, prayers, readings and silence. City workers are encouraged to drop in on their way into work to start their day by stopping to reflect.
Here is last week's reflection:
Bible reading
... a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22. 35 – 40)
Meditation
What is your work for? This is an interesting question to ask because you are likely to get a different answer depending on the person you ask. To your CEO, the answer may be about the overall profitability of the organisation. To your line manager, it may be about the achievement of targets, while for those you live with it may be about the salary you bring home and the way it enables you to live. Your customers will give a different answer again. For them, you work will be about customer service, the service or product that you deliver to them.
What is your work for? There are different answers depending on who we ask. None of them are wrong. They are all in the mix and we need to address them all as we go about our business.
What is your work for? How would God answer that question? Judging by the answer Jesus gave to the question about which is the greatest commandment, where the answer he gave involved God, ourselves and others, he would see that there are different answers which all have validity. However, by including love of our neighbour in his answer he would certainly also want us to focus our thinking on the ways in which our work benefits others, whether individually (as customers) or more broadly (as a society) and prioritise those things in the way that we work.
Silent reflection
Prayer
Lord Jesus, who shaped wood as a carpenter, who taught multitudes and who came to serve others, we thank you for our work and those it benefits.
We pray for the profitability of the organisations within which we work and for appropriate returns to shareholders and stakeholders alike.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We pray for the setting and achieving of realistic targets which shape and build our organisations in meeting customer needs and delivering broader benefits to society.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We give thanks for the blessing of an income to provide for those we love and with whom we live. May we never take that blessing for granted.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We pray for our customers as we seek to meet their needs and serve them to the best of our ability. Keep the benefit of others at the forefront of our thinking as we go about our business daily.
Bible reading
... a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22. 35 – 40)
Meditation
What is your work for? This is an interesting question to ask because you are likely to get a different answer depending on the person you ask. To your CEO, the answer may be about the overall profitability of the organisation. To your line manager, it may be about the achievement of targets, while for those you live with it may be about the salary you bring home and the way it enables you to live. Your customers will give a different answer again. For them, you work will be about customer service, the service or product that you deliver to them.
What is your work for? There are different answers depending on who we ask. None of them are wrong. They are all in the mix and we need to address them all as we go about our business.
What is your work for? How would God answer that question? Judging by the answer Jesus gave to the question about which is the greatest commandment, where the answer he gave involved God, ourselves and others, he would see that there are different answers which all have validity. However, by including love of our neighbour in his answer he would certainly also want us to focus our thinking on the ways in which our work benefits others, whether individually (as customers) or more broadly (as a society) and prioritise those things in the way that we work.
Silent reflection
Prayer
Lord Jesus, who shaped wood as a carpenter, who taught multitudes and who came to serve others, we thank you for our work and those it benefits.
We pray for the profitability of the organisations within which we work and for appropriate returns to shareholders and stakeholders alike.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We pray for the setting and achieving of realistic targets which shape and build our organisations in meeting customer needs and delivering broader benefits to society.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We give thanks for the blessing of an income to provide for those we love and with whom we live. May we never take that blessing for granted.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
We pray for our customers as we seek to meet their needs and serve them to the best of our ability. Keep the benefit of others at the forefront of our thinking as we go about our business daily.
Lord, lead me as I work for you, myself and for others.
May we love you, Lord God, with all our heart, and soul, and mind this week
May we love you, Lord God, with all our heart, and soul, and mind this week
as we put heart and soul and mind into our work.
May our work be for you, for others and for ourselves
and may the outcome of our work be benefit for others, as well as ourselves.
May those blessings of God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Rest upon you and remain with you always.
Amen.
May our work be for you, for others and for ourselves
and may the outcome of our work be benefit for others, as well as ourselves.
May those blessings of God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Rest upon you and remain with you always.
Amen.
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