"O Lord, how often have I lived through Lent without paying much attention? But how can I ever really celebrate Easter without observing Lent? How can I rejoice fully in your resurrection when I have avoided participating in your death?
There is so much in me that needs to die: false attachments, anger and greed, impatience and stinginess. O Lord, I am self-centered, concerned about myself, my career, my future, my name... Often I even feel that I try to use you for my own advantage. How preposterous, how sad! But yes, Lord, I know it is true. O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen."
Posts: 8055 | Location: in the backwoods of North Carolina | Registered: 06-07-02
Fuse, I'm sure that's a nice prayer but I'm not really relating to it somehow.
Frankly, when I started this post, I was gonna ask you some questions about Ash Wednesday, but what I was gonna ask would probably be labeled as selfish. Sorry.
Nice prayer.
Posts: 6711 | Location: Land of Lincoln, USA | Registered: 07-04-02
Honilov, I think you should post your question. If not in this forum, because it is for prayers and such, then at least in the Western religions forum! That is what these forums are here for, after all: for giving, sharing, and receiving information.
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