Welcome to Our Daily Bread. I'm Sheridan Voizzi, and I've called our reading today,

Kingdom-shaped workplace. The factories of Victorian England were dark places.

Fatalities were high, and workers often lived in poverty. How can the working man cultivate

ideals, George Cadbury asked, when his home is a slum? And so he built a new kind of factory for his

expanding chocolate business, one that benefited his workers. The result was Bourneville, a village of more than 300 homes,

with sports fields, playgrounds, schools and churches for Cadbury's workers and their families.

They were paid good wages and offered medical care, all because of Cadbury's faith in Christ.

Jesus teaches us to pray for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

This prayer can help us imagine, as Cadbury did, what our workplaces would be like under

God's rule, where our daily bread is earned and our debtor is forgiven.

As employees, it means working with all your heart for the Lord.

As employers, it means giving staff what's right and fair.

Whatever our role, whether paid or voluntary, it means tending to the well-being of those we serve with.

Like George Cadbury, let's imagine how things could be different if God were in charge of our neighborhoods and workplaces, because when he is, people flourish.

Today's scripture reading is from Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 to 13.

This then is how you should pray our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors and lead us

not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one let's pray together loving god would you

touch our imaginations today to visualize what our workplace or neighborhood

would look like under your rule?

God, would you give us a fresh vision?

And then, Lord, would you empower us to bring change wherever we can

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