Monday Morning Offering: 2/16

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Good morning, good God!

Well, in 48 hours
    it will be Ash Wednesday...

I want, Lord
    -actually I need-
        for this to be a good Lent...

I need to start again,
    with you,
        with your help... 

I want to be renewed

    by meeting you in prayer... 

 

I want to be refreshed
    by making peace with you...

 

I want to be reawakened

    to your presence in my life...  

It's time for me to take a spiritual inventory:
    to count my sins
        and number your countless mercies....

You offer me this season of grace 

    and my heart so dearly needs
        what you so freely give...

And as you know well, Lord,
    I've been here before,
        so many, many times...

Just as my New Year's resolutions

    slip so quickly from my mind,
so my Lenten pledges fade   

    like the ashes on my brow... 

 

So, I offer you 

    my past, broken Lenten vows
and I pray that this year

    your grace will  keep me faithful
        to prayer, fasting and works of mercy...

 

I offer you a lifetime 

    of unkept, pious promises
and pray you keep me modest 

    in what I pledge to do
that this Lent, at long last

    I might be faithful to my word... 

 

And I pray that when I stumble, 

    - and yes, I know I will -

I pray you'll pick me up, Lord, 

    dust me off and once again 

lead me on the path I pledged to walk

    throughout Lent's 40 days... 

 

I offer you this season, Lord
    and pray you help me live it
        - just one day at a time; 

    to pray and fast and sacrifice

        - just one day at a time;

    to make my way to Easter

        - just one day at a time... 

     

Walk with me through this Lent, Lord,

and remind me every day:

    Lent's first an offering made to you, 

         and then a grace for me... 

Amen.

  

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