Pause for Prayer: PALM SUNDAY

Holy Week begins today, Lord...

 

In some ways, it'll be an ordinary week:

    I'll still have my regular work and duties.

    I'll still need to care for family and friends.

    I'll still have to do the laundry and take out the trash. 

    I'll still have shopping to do and bills to pay. 

    I'll still worry and fret about all the things

        I always worry and fret about.

    I'll still have to deal with all of  life's everyday problems.

    My responsibilities won't diminish or take a break...

And I'll do all this in a world that largely ignores
    all we celebrate on these holy days:
        Palm Sunday
            Holy Thursday
                Good Friday
                    Holy Saturday
                        Easter!

So I need your help, Lord,
    to make and keep this week - holy...

I hope and pray this week will be peaceful
    - in spite of all that's mine to do...

I hope and pray these days will be prayerful:

    that I'll make time to spend alone with you

       - and time to spend in prayer, at church, with others...  

 

I hope and pray, in mind and heart
    these days will truly be different: 

        in how I plan and pass my time, 

        in how I relate to the world around me

        and how I grow in knowing and loving you...

Help me live this week of holy days,

    these solemn, grace filled, joyful days:

       a week of days made holy

           by your presence, word and mercy...

 

More than any days in all the year,

    more than any other week,

may the days ahead be holy, Lord

    in my heart, my prayer, my life...

Amen.

 

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