Is it Easter yet? Are you as tired , as I am, of this uphill climb called "Lent"? Sometimes Lent seems to fly by for me, but not so this year! How's it going with you?
I want RESURRECTION right NOW. No more dying and rising and dying and rising and dying and rising anymore. Just rising would be fine for me right about now.
Dream on. That's the point, isn't it? If I want to seriously realize more deeply the great love Christ had for me, I need to be serious about my response. I think I am being tempted to regress spiritually and to want only the sweet, consoling moments of my relationship with God. When it gets tough, when I see things about myself that I do not like, I don't like it.
Well, Lord, please help me to see that you love me as I am right now, not as I think I should be. You realize more than I, why I do not always choose to do the good and why I choose the bad that leads me away from you. You don't condemn me. You just wait. Like the father of the prodigal child, you wait for my return and you always, always welcome me home.
I ask for the grace to remember that my journey has a purpose and each step I take, even if it is taken away from you, can bring me back in a way that helps me on the way. I want to plan out each step of mine and eliminate all the pitfalls, sins and weaknesses, but that's the easy way and if I am to be the disciple you called me to be, I need to pick up my cross and follow you to the end.
Help me to remember that my daily dying and risings are ways I can express my love for you. They are occasions of prayer that I can offer for others in need. Each time I push myself back up, each time I deny myself for love of you, I am imitating the love you offered for me on the way to, and on Calvary.
The Evil Spirit is just waiting for me to give it all up and to stop my Lent right here and right now. With your grace Lord, I will keep on following you to the end. I entrust my efforts to you, believing that you are leading me to the NEW LIFE you came to give.
Jesus, my Resurrection and my LIFE, grant that I may RISE with you!
I want RESURRECTION right NOW. No more dying and rising and dying and rising and dying and rising anymore. Just rising would be fine for me right about now.
Dream on. That's the point, isn't it? If I want to seriously realize more deeply the great love Christ had for me, I need to be serious about my response. I think I am being tempted to regress spiritually and to want only the sweet, consoling moments of my relationship with God. When it gets tough, when I see things about myself that I do not like, I don't like it.
Well, Lord, please help me to see that you love me as I am right now, not as I think I should be. You realize more than I, why I do not always choose to do the good and why I choose the bad that leads me away from you. You don't condemn me. You just wait. Like the father of the prodigal child, you wait for my return and you always, always welcome me home.
I ask for the grace to remember that my journey has a purpose and each step I take, even if it is taken away from you, can bring me back in a way that helps me on the way. I want to plan out each step of mine and eliminate all the pitfalls, sins and weaknesses, but that's the easy way and if I am to be the disciple you called me to be, I need to pick up my cross and follow you to the end.
Help me to remember that my daily dying and risings are ways I can express my love for you. They are occasions of prayer that I can offer for others in need. Each time I push myself back up, each time I deny myself for love of you, I am imitating the love you offered for me on the way to, and on Calvary.
The Evil Spirit is just waiting for me to give it all up and to stop my Lent right here and right now. With your grace Lord, I will keep on following you to the end. I entrust my efforts to you, believing that you are leading me to the NEW LIFE you came to give.
Jesus, my Resurrection and my LIFE, grant that I may RISE with you!
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