The first step toward genuinely productive work is to make it a point to work coram Deo, in the presence of God. I don’t mean to limit this to formalities like opening with prayer or closing with a benediction, but this certainly means more than just some kind of formal recognition. And by saying this I don’t mean to imply that opening and closing with prayer is necessarily a “formality.” No, not at all. But if it is limited to that, it soon will be a dead formality.
