I Pray For My Team

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 I Pray for My Team

 I pray for my employees and their families. I pray for their relationships with their spouses. I pray for their children and any struggles they may be facing. I pray they find the success they are seeking both personally and professionally. I pray for my team.

 I recognize that there are complications to bringing religion into the workplace, and this has created obstacles that I have not properly faced over the years. But I no longer want to feel like I must apologize for my belief. If I deny my faith it allows for poor decisions both personally and professionally. I will not force my religion on other people. I will not ask my team to pray. I will not use scripture to train them in their work, but I will pray for my team.

 

Christianity continues to take criticism in this modern day where a fickle and ever-changing society tries to dictate what is acceptable to talk about and what is not. Religion is often part of the latter, and people of belief can be attacked for being who they are, seemingly without consequence. 

I believe some of this comes from the confusion that if you are a Christian you should always be perfect. And then when they see the failings of Christian’s all around, it makes it easier to attack the religion instead of focus on the behavior. Yet, to be a Christian is to recognize that you are not perfect, to recognize that you will fail, to recognize that will may make mistakes even catastrophic mistakes throughout your life, yet you can turn to the teachings of God to learn from the mistakes and turn failings into learning opportunities for yourself and for others. 


I don’t want to be as silent Christian simply because it’s not socially acceptable or because I have to be cautious with the way I operate my business. I don’t want to hide my faith because I’ve made many mistakes in my life that were not aligned with my beliefs. I no longer fear the attacks of my faith because of my past failings. I cannot change the mistakes I’ve made in the past, I cannot change the way others view me, I cannot make others believe my faith, and I cannot change the climate of the business world that continuously tries to separate the secular from the religious. But, I can pray for my team.

Location: Michigan, USA

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