Prayer while working

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I’m wondering does anybody else pray while they work I work as a union painter and sandblaster and I find myself quite a bit praying as I’m going about my day usually pray the Our father or the Hail Mary as I’m working and sometimes the Jesus prayer what prayers does everybody else pray while working
 
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I pray while I work all the time. There’s nothing wrong with that. 🙂
 
Many years ago a spiritual director instilled in me the habit to pray frequently the Gloria Patri.

Now working a night shift, I frequently pray the Nunc Dimittis and its antiphon from Compline.
 
My spiritual director told me to just have a conversation with God or Jesus. At first, I thought it odd, but I find it very comforting now.

When I say conversation, I don’t mean that I am talking to myself all day, but as I go through the day, I ask God what He would want me to do, or I thank Him for certain things. It helps keep me centered on what I should do. At other times, like when I am driving to work, I will have a more extended conversation/prayer with Him.

I don’t think reciting prayers at work is strange at all, as it helps keep us focused on the God and doing His will and not allowing the evil one to enter our minds.
 
Defining prayer as conversation with God, I spend the entire day immersed in it. I don’t care to talk much with anyone else anyway.
 
Unfortunately the environment I work in(industrial type work) is known to not be the most civil. I’m around a lot of people who have very bad attitudes/morals and even worse mouths. I pray a lot throughout the day to help keep me centered and focus on God, because it can be very easy to lose that focus in this environment.
 
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