All Prayers Index

A Complete Map of Moments for Prayer¶

This collection offers prayers for every season, struggle, and celebration in the life of computer science students and professors.

I. The Rhythms of the Academic Year¶

Beginnings¶

The first days, new courses, and fresh starts

• 🔴 The First Day (For Students)

• 🔴 The First Day (For Professors)

• 🔴 Beginning a New Course

• 🔴 Starting a Capstone Project

• 🔴 Beginning Graduate Studies

• 🔴 Starting Your First Faculty Position

• 🔴 Beginning a Sabbatical

Middles¶

Midterm pressure, exhaustion, and the long weeks

• 🔴 Midterm Season

• 🔴 Before Spring Break

• 🔴 When the Semester Feels Endless

• 🔴 During a Challenging Unit

• 🔴 The Grind of Weeks 6-10

Endings¶

Finals, grading, graduation, and closure

• 🔴 Final Exam Week (For Students)

• 🔴 Final Exam Week (For Professors)

• 🔴 Submitting Final Grades

• 🔴 The Last Class Meeting

• 🔴 Graduation Day (For Students)

• 🔴 Graduation Day (For Professors)

• 🔴 End of Academic Year

Transitions¶

Choosing majors, changing careers, and life shifts

• 🔴 Choosing Computer Science

• 🔴 Switching to CS

• 🔴 Declaring a CS Minor

• 🔴 The Summer Between

• 🔴 From Undergraduate to Graduate

• 🔴 From Student to Professional

• 🔴 From Academia to Industry

• 🔴 From Industry to Academia

• 🔴 Retirement from Teaching

II. The Work of Learning (For Students)¶

Intellectual Struggle¶

When concepts won’t click and confusion reigns

• 🔴 When a Concept Won’t Click

• 🔴 Before Reading Dense Material

• 🔴 Facing an Impossible Problem Set

• 🔴 When Everyone Else Seems to Understand

• 🔴 Learning a New Programming Language

• 🔴 Encountering Proofs

• 🔴 Wrestling with Recursion

• 🔴 Understanding Pointers and Memory

• 🟡 Grasping Big-O Notation

• 🔴 Making Sense of Functional Programming

Breakthrough Moments¶

Understanding dawns and problems solved

• 🔴 When Understanding Finally Dawns

• 🔴 Completing a Challenging Assignment

• 🔴 First Successful Compile and Run

• 🔴 Solving What Seemed Impossible

• 🔴 Making Unexpected Connections

• 🔴 Understanding Why

Daily Work¶

Coding sessions, study groups, and office hours

• 🔴 Beginning a Late-Night Coding Session

• 🔴 Opening Your Laptop to Work

• 🔴 Before Office Hours

• 🔴 Before Asking a Question in Class

• 🔴 Reviewing Notes After Lecture

• 🔴 During a Study Group

• 🔴 Reading Documentation

Assessment¶

Exams, grades, interviews, and evaluation

• 🔴 Before Taking an Exam

• 🔴 During an Exam

• 🔴 After a Disappointing Grade

• 🔴 After an Encouraging Grade

• 🔴 Waiting for Grades

• 🔴 Before a Code Review

• 🔴 During a Technical Interview

III. The Work of Teaching (For Professors)¶

Preparation¶

Planning courses, lectures, and assignments

• 🔴 Choosing Topics

• 🔴 Creating Assignment

• 🔴 Designing Exam

• 🔴 Learning To Teach

• 🔴 Planning New Course

• 🔴 Preparing Lecture

• 🔴 Updating Materials

• 🔴 Writing Syllabus

In the Classroom¶

Teaching moments, student engagement, and live coding

• 🔴 Before Class Begins

• 🔴 Last Minutes

• 🔴 Live Coding

• 🔴 Question Unknown Answer

• 🔴 Starting Lecture

• 🔴 Students Checked Out

• 🔴 Students Engaged

• 🔴 Students Not Following

• 🔴 Teaching Twentieth Time

One-on-One¶

Mentorship, difficult conversations, and guidance

• 🔴 Academic Dishonesty

• 🔴 Before Office Hours

• 🔴 Career Advice

• 🔴 Mentoring Research

• 🔴 Recommendation Letter

• 🔴 Struggling Student

Assessment & Feedback¶

Grading, feedback, and evaluation

• 🔴 Before Grading

• 🔴 Calculating Grades

• 🔴 Exceptional Work

• 🔴 Failing Grade

• 🔴 While Grading

• 🔴 Writing Feedback

Professional Life¶

Research, tenure, conferences, and balance

• 🔴 Applying For Grants

• 🔴 Balancing Teaching Research

• 🔴 Faculty Meeting

• 🔴 New Research Project

• 🔴 Paper Rejection

• 🔴 Presenting Conference

• 🔴 Research Dead End

• 🔴 Reviewing Papers

• 🔴 Submitting Paper

• 🔴 Tenure Review

IV. Collaboration & Community¶

Working Together¶

Group projects, pair programming, and teamwork

• 🔴 Beginning Group Project

• 🔴 First Open Source

• 🔴 Giving Code Review

• 🔴 Group Conflict

• 🔴 Pair Programming

• 🔴 Receiving Code Review

• 🔴 Teammate Not Contributing

• 🔴 You Not Contributing

Academic Community¶

Departments, conferences, and scholarly fellowship

• 🔴 Colleague Leaves

• 🔴 Competitive Community

• 🔴 CS Conference

• 🔴 Department Meeting

• 🔴 Faculty Hiring

• 🔴 Grace Hopper

• 🔴 Hackathon

• 🔴 Welcoming Colleague

Mentorship¶

Advisor-advisee relationships

• 🔴 Assigned Advisor

• 🔴 Difficult Mentoring

• 🔴 Goodbye To Advisee

• 🔴 Mentee Surpasses

• 🔴 Mentoring Clicks

• 🔴 Taking Advisee

V. The Practice of Programming¶

Creation¶

Starting projects, designing systems, and creative flow

• 🔴 Building Beautiful

• 🔴 Choosing Tech Stack

• 🔴 Creative Flow

• 🔴 Designing System

• 🔴 First Line Of Code

• 🔴 Starting New Project

Debugging & Problem-Solving¶

Hunting bugs, reading errors, and finding solutions

• 🔴 Finding The Bug

• 🔴 Hours Of Debugging

• 🔴 Hunting Bug

• 🔴 Legacy Code

• 🔴 Memory Issues

• 🔴 Reading Errors

• 🔴 Refactoring

• 🔴 Runtime Error

• 🔴 Stack Overflow Error

• 🔴 Wont Compile

Testing¶

Writing tests, passes and failures

• 🔴 All Tests Pass

• 🔴 Integration Testing

• 🔴 Tests Fail

• 🔴 User Testing

• 🔴 Writing Tests

Deployment & Maintenance¶

Production, monitoring, and long-term care

• 🔴 Deploying Production

• 🔴 Deployment Fails

• 🔴 Maintaining Old Code

• 🔴 Monitoring System

• 🔴 System Failure

VI. Moments of Struggle & Doubt¶

Personal Challenges¶

Imposter syndrome, burnout, and exhaustion

• 🔴 Burnout

• 🔴 Comparison

• 🔴 Imposter Syndrome

• 🔴 Late Nights Exhaustion

• 🔴 Missing Personal Events

• 🔴 Not Creative Enough

• 🔴 Not Technical Enough

• 🔴 Work Life Balance

• 🔴 Wrong Field

Failure & Setback¶

Rejection, mistakes, and career setbacks

• 🔴 Costly Mistake

• 🔴 Failing Exam

• 🔴 Grad School Rejection

• 🔴 Grant Denial

• 🔴 Laid Off

• 🔴 No Internship

• 🔴 Not Getting Tenure

• 🔴 Paper Rejection

• 🔴 Project Fails

Ethical Struggles¶

When code is misused and integrity is tested

• 🔴 AI Causing Harm

• 🔴 Asked To Build Wrong

• 🔴 Code Used Unethically

• 🔴 Innovation Responsibility

• 🔴 Pressure To Compromise

• 🔴 Reporting Dishonesty

VII. Ethical & Vocational Formation¶

Wisdom & Discernment¶

Algorithmic bias, privacy, accessibility, and responsibility

• 🔴 Accessibility

• 🔴 Algorithmic Bias

• 🔴 Architectural Decisions

• 🔴 Data Privacy

• 🔴 Deploying Ai

• 🔴 Environmental Impact

• 🔴 Profit Vs Ethics

• 🔴 Vulnerable Populations

Vocation & Calling¶

Discerning your path and finding meaning

• 🔴 Choosing Specialization

• 🔴 Competing Job Offers

• 🔴 Discerning Cs

• 🔴 Industry Or Academia

• 🔴 Is This Calling

• 🔴 Money Or Meaning

• 🔴 Skills Serve Others

Character Formation¶

Humility, patience, perseverance, and grace

• 🔴 Humbled By Unknowing

• 🔴 Humility In Collaboration

• 🔴 Learning From Mistakes

• 🔴 Patience Through Debugging

• 🔴 Perseverance

• 🔴 Receiving Criticism

VIII. Specific CS Domains & Concepts¶

Core Areas¶

Data structures, algorithms, architecture, and theory

• 🔴 Algorithms

• 🔴 Compilers

• 🔴 Computer Architecture

• 🔴 Data Structures

• 🔴 Database Design

• 🔴 Networks

• 🔴 Operating Systems

• 🔴 Theory Of Computation

Specialized Fields¶

AI/ML, graphics, cybersecurity, HCI, and robotics

• 🔴 Beginning Ai Ml

• 🔴 Computer Graphics

• 🔴 Cybersecurity

• 🔴 Embedded Systems

• 🔴 First Neural Network

• 🔴 Hci

• 🔴 Large Language Models

• 🔴 Software Engineering

Mathematical Foundations¶

Discrete math, probability, linear algebra, and cryptography

• 🔴 Cryptography

• 🔴 Discrete Math

• 🔴 Formal Methods

• 🔴 Graph Theory

• 🔴 Linear Algebra

• 🔴 Probability Statistics

IX. Technology & Tools¶

Git, IDEs, terminals, servers, and infrastructure

• 🔴 Backup Recovery

• 🔴 Cloud Computing

• 🔴 Command Line

• 🔴 Database Corruption

• 🔴 Dev Environment

• 🔴 First Git

• 🔴 Keyboard Shortcuts

• 🔴 Lost Work

• 🔴 Servers Down

• 🔴 Using Ide

• 🔴 Working In Terminal

X. Seasons & Daily Rhythms¶

Daily Moments¶

Morning coffee, afternoon slumps, and closing your laptop

• 🔴 Afternoon Slump

• 🔴 Arriving Lab

• 🔴 Closing Laptop

• 🔴 Commute To Campus

• 🔴 Late Night Coding

• 🟡 Morning Coffee

• 🔴 Returning Fresh

• 🔴 Walking Away

Weekly Rhythms¶

Monday beginnings, Wednesday humps, Friday endings

• 🔴 Friday Afternoon

• 🔴 Monday Morning

• 🔴 Wednesday Hump

• 🔴 Weekend Rest

• 🔴 Weekend Work

Seasonal Moments¶

Fall energy, winter darkness, spring renewal, summer work

• 🔴 Fall Semester Energy

• 🔴 Spring Renewal

• 🔴 Summer Research

• 🔴 Summer Rest

• 🔴 Winter Darkness

XI. Relationships & Humanity¶

With Students¶

For professors caring for the whole person

• 🔴 Celebrating Success

• 🔴 Firm But Loving

• 🔴 Grieving With Students

• 🔴 Mental Health

• 🔴 Struggling Personally

• 🔴 Student Discovers Calling

With Professors¶

For students grateful for mentorship

• 🔴 Disappointing Professor

• 🔴 Extraordinary Care

• 🔴 Gratitude For Mentorship

• 🔴 Professors Are Human

With Peers¶

Friendship, competition, and mutual support

• 🔴 Celebrating Others

• 🔴 Healthy Competition

• 🔴 Making Friends

• 🔴 Mutual Learning

• 🔴 Professional Jealousy

• 🔴 Supporting Peers

With Family & Friends¶

Bridging CS and non-CS worlds

• 🔴 Loved Ones Support

• 🔴 Missing Family Time

• 🔴 Non CS Dont Understand

• 🔴 Trying To Explain

• 🔴 When They Dont

XII. The Life of the Mind¶

Wonder & Beauty¶

Elegant algorithms and computational artistry

• 🔴 Artistry Of Design

• 🔴 Beautiful Algorithm

• 🔴 Complexity Becomes Simple

• 🔴 Computational Thinking

• 🔴 Elegant Code

• 🔴 Mathematics Beneath

Limits & Mystery¶

What computers cannot do and questions without answers

• 🔴 Consciousness And Ai

• 🔴 Halting Problem

• 🔴 Limits Of Computation

• 🔴 Questions Tech Cant Answer

• 🔴 Undecidability

• 🔴 What Computers Cant Do

Integration¶

Faith, technology, liberal arts, and human flourishing

• 🔴 CS Liberal Arts

• 🔴 CS Other Disciplines

• 🔴 Faith And Technology

• 🔴 Science Humanities

• 🔴 Tech Human Flourishing

XIII. Special Occasions¶

Celebrations¶

Hackathons, publications, theses, and first job offers

• 🔴 Defending Thesis

• 🔴 Department Celebrations

• 🔴 First Hello World

• 🔴 First Job Offer

• 🔴 Launching Product

• 🔴 Publishing First Paper

• 🔴 Winning Hackathon

Commemorations¶

Honoring pioneers and CS history

• 🔴 CS Pioneer Passes

• 🔴 History Of Computing

• 🔴 Honoring Those Before

• 🔴 Key Moments

Lament¶

When technology harms and innovation outpaces wisdom

• 🔴 AI Ethics Failures

• 🔴 Algorithms Perpetuate Injustice

• 🔴 Dark Side Social Media

• 🔴 Data Breaches

• 🔴 Innovation Outpaces Wisdom

• 🔴 Tech Used For Harm

• 🔴 Techs Role In Isolation

Contribute¶

Every prayer listed here includes a link to submit a pull request. We welcome your contributions to help build this collection for the computer science community.