O One In Charge,
support us all workday long,
until the shadows lengthen,
and the evening comes,
when the online world is mostly unplugged,
the fever of blogging is over,
and our actual paid work is done.
Then, in your mercy,
grant our computers safe docking at home
and us a holy rest.
Amen.
Category: Prayers
A prayer for evening
Be present and protect us, O
One In Charge, through the
night, so that we who are
wearied by the changes and
chances of Fair Use Laws,
may rest in your eternal
changelessness.
Amen
A prayer for a New Year
Dear One In Charge,
You have brought us in safety to this new year: Preserve us and our tech devices with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by phishing scams, spyware, viruses, or other adversities; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose.
Amen.
A heart full of praise
Praise is good for the soul. It’s one of the best defraggers besides confession.
2.3 Te Deum
You are The One In Charge:
we praise you;
You are The One In Charge
of Cloud Computing:
we acclaim you;
You are the eternal one:
All applications worship
you.
To you all RSS feeds, all the
powers of search engines,
Google and Bing, sing in
endless praise:
Holy, holy, holy! The One In
Charge of PHP and Java.
Amen.
— from The Book of Uncommon Prayer
If it’s easy to worry about, it’s easy to pray about
A new day. A new challenge. Think angels don’t have challenges? Ted is a case in point. He is a great guy. Don’t get me wrong. But he’s one of those “visionary” types. Yesterday he was talking to me about Web 9.5 and was worried whether his servers were up for its demands. The guy was getting stressed out. Last I checked only a few of you were up to Web 3.0.
Sistertech has learned that with some clients it is best to give them something “easy” to worry about. So I tried to remind Ted of the little things, the everyday things, the here-and-now things that he could worry about. Today. I gave him this little prayer. Simply as 1-2-3. Ted was remarkably calm and focused in just a few moments.
Why not give it a try? It’s a great prayer with which to start your day.
1.1.1
May The One In Charge bless us this day, keep us from evil viruses, and bring us stable wireless connectivity.
Amen.
6.16 For Relief from Anxiety
Dear Sistertech,
I’m a new sysadmin for [company name redacted]. This is my first time conducting major updates across our network. What’s worse is that we’re also changing the operating system to [name of OS redacted]. I can’t get any sleep! I’ve never been so nervous in my life. I’m not sure what to do to get my mojo back.
Please help!
Anxious in Albany
Dear Anxious,
This is indeed a potentially terrifying time in the life of both the network and the system administrator. Sistertech implores you to take three deep breaths. For some reason one deep breath is never enough. Here is a prayer that should help.
Grant me, O One In Charge, not to be anxious about earthly things, especially about new program updates and operating system changes. Help me now, even as I face these momentous choices, to make those choices that will avert the cascading failure of my computer and the entire network.
Amen.
from The Book of Uncommon Prayer, p. 153.
Yours faithfully in service to The One In Charge,
Sistertech
PS: If you need a more specific prayer, simply contact Tom the Intern at: tomtheintern@sistertech.com.
.16 For Relief from Anxiety
Grant me, O One In Charge, not to be anxious about earthly things, especially about new program updates and operating system changes. Help me now, even as I face these momentous choices, to make those choices that will avert the cascading failure of my computer and the entire network.
Amen.
For tech devices who are traveling
For those tech devices traveling on Labor Day:
O One In Charge, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go:Preserve those devices that are traveling. Surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them in safety to their journey’s end. Take care of their owners, too.
Amen.
from The Book of Uncommon Prayer, p. 144
Photo: “Alone” by Giorgio Montersino
Daemons got you down?
3.8 St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael, Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of hackers. Ask The One In Charge to rebuke them, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly ISP, by the power of The One In Charge, thrust into hell _____ (state name of the operating system you despise) and all daemons who prowl about cyberspace seeking the ruin of computer users.
Amen.
From The Book of Uncommon Prayer, p. 57
A Prayer for Internet Connections
4.9 For Internet Connections
Gracious One In Charge, have mercy on your servants. Banish from our homes and offices all unwanted contentions between ourselves and our Internet connections. Let us receive bountiful broadband access so that we may continue to acquire all those online blessings which you have in store for us.
Amen.
From The Book of Uncommon Prayer, p. 71
Since it’s morning somewhere
A morning tune from The Book of Uncommon Prayer:
Laptop has started like the first bootup,
Lapwing has spoken like the first Tweet.
Praise for the Tweeting! Praise for the Friending!
Praise for them springing fresh from the Web!
Tweet the day’s new posts straight from
my own blog,
Like the first email of the new day.
Praise for the content Google gives to me
sprung in completeness from news alerts.
Mine is the crowdsource!
Mine is the FriendFeed!
Born of the Usenet of long ago!
Praise with a Fan Page! Praise every morning!
The recreation of media.