Pause for Prayer: THURSDAY 3/5

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Lent is a time for spring cleaning - in my heart.  It's a time for airing out, dusting, washing, polishing, straightening up and ordering my heart - a season for clearing out whatever doesn't belong there, whatever keeps my heart from its best and healthiest desires and thoughts and deeds.

Of course, most of this spring cleaning is God's work, not mine.  Left to my own devices, I'll put off this interior cleaning for as long as I can... I make the mistake of thinking that I have to do all the work when all I really need to do is just get out of the way and let God do what God does best...

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

   and put a new and steadfast spirit in my soul...
        (Psalm 51:12)

Help me get out of your way
    to make room for you to do
       what you want to do,
    for whatever you want to change,
        in my heart this Lent...

Restore my heart, refresh my heart, 
   renew my heart, replenish my heart,
      recreate my heart and remake
         as you first intended it to be...

Nourish all that makes my heart strong
    and where my heart's grown weak,
       make it steadfast and true...

Lord, heal my heart's brokenness
   and refresh within whatever has gone stale...

Remind me of blessings past, Lord,
   and help me trust in blessings yet to come...

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

   and put a new and steadfast spirit in my soul...

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