Let us pray in quiet remembrance of our need for redemption.
Joel 2:12-13
Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment.
Lent is an invitation to be open, to be transformed, to be loved. To be open to Love’s love, to Love’s invitation, to Love’s challenge and it is not always easy. Lent is a get-away time. A time to spend together, the Lover and the beloved. It is a time to relax into the relationship, to enjoy, and to refresh and to grow within our unique and intimate bond. Lent is an invitation to trust. Lent is an opportunity to allow Mystery to reveal truths about who I am and who I am called to be. Lent is about inner healing, inner growth. Lent is not a season of doing something, but of experiencing something.
Heavenly Father,
Help us to honor this day with the ashes on our forehead. May they help us remember where we have come from and where we are going. May we acknowledge to you our sins and our deep need for your loving forgiveness and grace. We pray that this Lenten season will make us so much more aware of how much we need your healing in our lives.
Amen.
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