Word for the Season
Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart...
Joel 2:12
Reflection
Joel 2:12
Reflection
It's the word "whole" that makes things hard here...
Returning? Sounds like a good idea...
Starting now? Why not? It's Lent!
From the heart? Where else?
With my whole heart?
Whoa!
See, that's the hard part:
the Lord asks for all of me...
even the parts I want to hide, cling to,
or keep for myself...
It's the word "whole" that makes things hard here...
Prayer
The truth is, Lord,
I'm not sure I'm ready
to come back to you with my whole heart
- and to say otherwise wouldn't be the whole truth.
So be patient with me, please...
Let's you and I work this out this Lent...
Can we do this one day at a time,
a piece of my heart each day?
And will you help me with the parts
I have trouble with,
the heart-parts I hold on to?
I trust you, Lord,
and pray you will trust me
to return to you this Lent, day by day,
with my whole heart...
Amen. 2009LentPostCollection
Image: Gwen Meharg
Returning? Sounds like a good idea...
Starting now? Why not? It's Lent!
From the heart? Where else?
With my whole heart?
Whoa!
See, that's the hard part:
the Lord asks for all of me...
even the parts I want to hide, cling to,
or keep for myself...
It's the word "whole" that makes things hard here...
Prayer
The truth is, Lord,
I'm not sure I'm ready
to come back to you with my whole heart
- and to say otherwise wouldn't be the whole truth.
So be patient with me, please...
Let's you and I work this out this Lent...
Can we do this one day at a time,
a piece of my heart each day?
And will you help me with the parts
I have trouble with,
the heart-parts I hold on to?
I trust you, Lord,
and pray you will trust me
to return to you this Lent, day by day,
with my whole heart...
Amen. 2009LentPostCollection
Image: Gwen Meharg
-ConcordPastor
In the Little Black Book for Lent, which one of our parishioners so generously donates to us each year, today's suggestion was that we might wish to make the Lenten journey with someone. Mary Magdalene was one of the persons suggested. I am going to try to have Mary Magdalene accompany me each day during this Lent. I have never approached Lent in this way, but I can think of no one that I would rather experience Lent with than this woman who was so close to Jesus.
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