LENT 2022
"SANCTIFYING GOD, WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE IN THE WILDERNESS, LEAD THEM TO YOUR HEART.
WHERE YOUR PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY FOR YOU, GIVE THEM PRACTICES OF FASTING AND SCRIPTURE READING AND ALMSGIVING AND REPENTANCE AND PRAYER.
WHERE YOUR FOLLOWERS KNOW BEATINGS, IMPISONMENTS, HARDSHIPS AND CALAMITIES, VISIT THEM WITH THE COMFORTING POWER OF YOUR PRESENCE."
(FROM: "EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS")
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE; AND WHOSE YOU ARE.
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SFMC Tree of SPIRITUAL practices
A TERRIBLE PRAYER
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TERRIBLE AT PRAYING.
I FORGET.
MY MIND WANDERS.
I FALL ASLEEP.
I DON'T PRAY ENOUGH.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT PRAYER IS
OR WHAT PRAYER DOES.
IF PRAYER WERE SCHOOL...
I WOULD FLUNK PRAYING.
BUT PRAYER ISN'T SCHOOL.
IT IS MYSTERY.
MAYBE THE MYSTERY IS...
JESUS LOVES TERRIBLE PRAYERS.
MAYBE...
WHEN I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO SAY, HE SAYS WHAT I CAN'T SAY.
WHEN I TALK TOO MUCH, HE CHERISHES MY TOO-MANY WORDS.
WHEN I FALL ASLEEP, HE HOLDS ME IN HIS LAP AND CARESSES MY WEARY SOUL.
WHEN I AM OVERWHELMED WITH GUILT AT MY INCONSISTENT, INADEQUATE PRAYING
HE WHISPERS, "YOUR NAME IS ALWAYS ON MY LIPS."
I AM FILLED WITH GRATITUDE, AND MY SOUL OVERFLOWS WITH THANKFULNESS AND I...
I...FIND MYSELF SAYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, "THANK YOU."
PRAYING THE MYSTERY.
- MIKE YACONELLI
