Prayer to Begin the Day

Jesus, I desire to start this day with you. And yet, my mind
keeps flitting to so many things:
        the projects I want to accomplish,
              the people I want to talk to,
                    the people I wish I didn’t have to
                          talk to.
I wonder: Are these things distractions to spiritual concentration
or invitations to see God in the ordinary? I’m not
sure, Jesus, I know that you are that Center who knows no
distraction. So I offer up my mental fragmentation to
you, O Lord my God. May my scatteredness become your gatheredness.
As I’m contemplating a thousand things, Jesus, may I somehow be contemplating you.
Amen.

from Prayers from the Heart by Richard Foster