Prayer for Leaving Work at Work

It can be difficult to leave work at work. Whether our jobs require us to take work home or work just “lives” in our head, part of being a good spouse, friend and disciple is to set boundaries. I have found this prayer from the St. Augustine prayerbook helpful. Perhaps it will help you.

Let us Pray,
Let me set aside the day’s work, with its disappointments or accomplishments, tasks accomplished and those that remain to be done; let me leave all this aside, so that none of it will distract me from those I love and who love me. You have given me work to do for the greater good, and you have given those closest to me to love that we might find joy in each other. Give me wisdom to respond to your call in both and to receive them both as gifts from your hand. Amen. (St. Augustine’s Prayerbook Revised, 51)