When It's Good
New Job / Graduation
For when you feel: got the job, graduating, new chapter, starting Monday
And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.
The MinuteHomily
The offer letter is signed, or the diploma is still in its envelope, and Monday is coming. Before it arrives, borrow a prayer from Moses. He was eighty when he prayed it, his résumé full of detours, and still he asked God for the boldest thing a worker can ask: "establish thou the work of our hands." Make it stick. Make it matter longer than we will. Celebrate the credential and the title today; they're real gifts, and they trace back to a real Giver. But the establishing never transfers to you. In every role you'll ever hold, God is the one who makes work outlast the worker. Beauty on you, purpose on the work, God over both. That's the send-off. Go.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Lord, thank You for this open door. Let Your beauty be on me and establish the work of my hands: make what I do matter for longer than I can see. Amen.
“God has created me to do Him some definite service.”
St. John Henry Newman
Hymns for this moment
“Here I Am, Lord” · Dan Schutte
the commissioning song
“Now Thank We All Our God” · Martin Rinkart
One small step
Write Psalm 90:17 somewhere you'll see it on day one: desk, mirror, phone lock screen.
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