Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 215

 

It's time for me to ponder, Lord,

    my plans for living Lent this year 

and more to the point, to wonder and ask:

    what are your plans for me?

What will you do in my life this Lent?

Will you heal the hurt I've carried for so long? 

 

Will you reconcile me with those I'm estranged from?

 

Will you give me the strength to break a bad habit?

 

Will you lift me up out of my grief?

 

Will you help me forgive the one who offended me?

 

Will you forgive in me what I can't forgive myself?

 

Will you give me courage to face my fears?

 

Will you deepen my faith in you and your love?

 

Will you open my heart to serve the poor? 

 

Will you help me to love the folks I don't like?

 

Will you make me more honest, fair and just?

 

Will you stand as a guard at the doors of my lips?

 

Will you give me wisdom to make better choices?

 

Will you move me beyond my self-imposed limits?

 

Will you open my heart to pray for my foes?

 

Will you fill my soul with your Spirit's gifts?

 

Will you bless me in ways I've not yet imagined?

 

You can and you could do all of this, Lord,

    so I pray for the grace to welcome you in...

 

And I pray for the grace to open myself 

    to the plans you have for me this Lent...

 

And I pray for the grace 

    to work with you as you work in me 

to bring to be

    what I have thought impossible;

and to bring to harvest

    what I thought  thought was all but lost;

and to mend and heal 

    all my broken parts;

and to draw me near

    where I've feared to go;

and to give me the courage

    to do what I must,

to become the person

    you made me to be...

 

It's time for me to ponder, Lord,

    my plans for living Lent this year 

and more to the point, to wonder and ask:

    what are your plans for me?

 

Amen. 

  

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