My Prayer for Work Was Something I Said Angry in a Dark Truck. Then My Wife Left a Note in My Lunchbox About the Prayer They Hid
Twenty years on site, overtime cut, $600 short every month, her mother moving in sick, the night I yelled at my son, and seven minutes on the drive in
I leave the house at five and I am on site before it is light. For twenty years I never said a prayer for work. Last year I started, in the truck, in the dark, and it came out angry every time.
Overtime cut. Diesel up. The end of every month $600 short no matter how many Saturdays I took. And one night in March I yelled at my sixteen-year-old over a dent in the bumper so loud the neighbors’ porch light came on.
The Year It All Came Due
I am 46. I am a concrete finisher, and I have been with the same contractor for twenty years. Last spring they lost a big county contract and cut everybody’s overtime. Overtime was a third of my pay.
Then my wife Kim’s mother got sick, and she moved in with us. Her medications were not all covered. We started putting them on the card. By fall we owed $16,500, and the truck I drive to work needed new brakes and a water pump.
I did what men like me do. I took every Saturday they offered. I did side jobs on Sundays, pouring patios for cash. I stopped going to my son’s games because I was working. Kim took a second job at a hardware store. We prayed at dinner, short and tired.
But mostly I was angry. At the company. At the price of diesel. At God, if I am honest. I would sit in the truck at 4:55 in the morning and say my prayer for work through my teeth, and arrive on site already looking for a fight.
My son Tyler stopped talking to me after the night with the bumper. He would leave a room when I walked in. That hurt more than the money.
What Kim Put in My Lunchbox
Kim packs my lunch every day. Twenty years. A sandwich, an apple, and sometimes a note that says Love you.
One Monday in October, the note was longer. Travis. I’ve been listening to this every morning since Mom moved in. It’s the only reason I’m still standing. There’s a link on your phone. Please. On the drive. — K
Watch the video my wife left on my phone
What the Video Says
The man in it is Simon Carter. He was a newspaper writer in Houston, and at his lowest he was working extra hours and a second job and still never getting ahead. Every time he saved a little, a surprise bill swept it away. He says there was a day he asked himself how it had come to this, when a man is supposed to give his family something.
His paper sent him to interview a priest who had spent years as a librarian in a church library in Rome, with 52 miles of ancient manuscripts the public never sees. The priest told him about a lost gospel, older than all the others, that the church kept hidden for two thousand years. Hidden, he says, because people who can pray with it do not need anyone standing between them and God.
Inside it is one prayer. It takes seven minutes. He says it resonates at 432 hertz, what healers call the God frequency.
He is honest that it did not work right away. It got worse. Then a lawyer’s letter came: a great-aunt he barely knew had left his family $40,000, and she had changed her will in the same weeks he started praying. His brother-in-law, struggling on a used car lot, became the top salesman in his company in two months, his sales up 500%. His wife came to him in tears to apologize, and soon a promotion she never expected came along.
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He says 12,989 people in more than 13 countries are using it. Headphones in the morning, seven minutes. Then coffee and the day.
See the seven-minute prayer the video says was hidden for 2,000 years
The Drive In
The next morning I sat in the truck at 4:55 and played it through the speakers instead of the radio. When it ended, I was still parked in the driveway. My hands were on my knees. I was not angry. I could not remember the last time I sat in that truck and was not angry.
I drove to the site and said good morning to every man on my crew by name. One of them asked if I was feeling okay.
On the fourth day, I came home and Tyler was in the garage working on the dented bumper himself, trying to pull it out with a suction cup. I stood there for a minute. Then I said, “Son, I’m sorry about that night. It wasn’t about the truck.” He did not look up for a long time. Then he said, “I know, Dad.” I got my tools, and we fixed it together, and he talked to me for two hours about a girl named Hailey.
The overtime is still cut. The card is still there. But I am not the man in the dark truck anymore, and my son talks to me.
Why a Guy Like Me Never Heard of It
I was raised Lutheran. Confirmed at thirteen. I do not remember anybody ever talking about a gospel they kept off the shelves.
Simon Carter says that is the whole point. This prayer was supposed to stay with the people at the top. He says his offices have been broken into twice, people keep trying to crash his website, and he had to move everything once. Kim says the first link she found went dead in a few days.
Hear the seven-minute prayer before the video is taken down again
If You Pray Through Your Teeth
If you say a prayer for work every morning and it comes out angry… if you are working every Saturday and still $600 short… if somebody you love has started leaving the room when you walk in…
Watch it tonight. It is free to watch, about half an hour.
He gives you a full year to try the prayer. If it does nothing for you, one email gets your money back, and you keep the prayer. If the link does not work, it has been pulled again, so do not wait on it.
Travis Lindgren — Writes about the prayer for work he says before the shift, praying for a crew by name and morning prayers short enough for the drive.
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