Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 3/15

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O Lord,

    I have so much more than I need!

I have too much stuff, too many things:

I even have things I've forgotten I have!

 

I have too many clothes:

    clothes that fit and clothes that don't

    and clothes I'll never wear again...

 

I have stuff and things and toys and bling,

    piled high, boxed up, packed away,

    in storage in the basement and the attic...

 

And too much money!

No, I'm not a millionaire

but I have more money than more than half 

    of the people in the world

and when I see how much so many need

    I see I have more than I need for myself...

Here's the hard question, Lord:
    how much of anything do I really need?
When I think about that, and when I'm honest,
    I know I have more than I need...

I need to do some housecleaning, Lord,

and offer at least some of my excess

    to those who can use it

and then dig deeper and give from my want

    to those who need it...

Help me, Lord, and take away

my desire to always have more:

    my desire for having more than I need;

    my desire for collecting things

        for the sake of collecting them;

    my desire to have more for more's sake;

    my desire to have more than others have;

    my desire to buy, to have and to own

        the fastest, the newest, the sleekest whatever!

Take away my desire for
    full shelves, full closets, full boxes,
    - full of whatever it is I want more of...

Take away my tendency

    to stuff my heart with junk and filler, 

    to fill myself with so much less 

        than my heart deserves and needs... 

 

This Lent, Lord, help me simplify my life:
    help me clean out, give up and cast off

    so many things I just don't need

    or have already in abundance...

 

Make me generous, Lord, in sharing with others

     whatever I have, of all I have,

     for which they have a greater need...

Amen.

 

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