Here is a prayer that I wrote for Ash Wednesday this year. It can in fact be used throughout Lent as a centering prayer for a Lenten discipline. I had planned to make it into a meditation video but have not had time. Maybe later in Lent.
We have chosen to fast
Not with ashes but with actions
Not with sackcloth but in sharing
Not in thoughts but in deeds
We will give up our abundance
To share our food with the hungry
We will give up our comfort
To provide homes for the destitute
We will give up our fashions
To see the naked clothed
We will share where others hoard
We will free where others oppress
We will heal where others harm
Then God’s light will break out on us
God’s healing will quickly appear
God will guide us always
God’s righteousness will go before us
We will find our joy in the Lord
We will be like a well watered garden
We will be called repairers of broken walls
Together we will feast at God’s banquet table
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Thanks Chris. It’s reminiscent of the prayer of St Frances of Assisi. A good way to start Lent
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Thanks for sharing!
thank you for this prayer – i was searching for a positive prayer to say with my children – i have 400 of them – this is perfect and beautiful and give s the message i try to instill in them in my teaching – thank you
thank you for this prayer – i was searching for a positive prayer to say with my children – i have 400 of them – this is perfect and beautiful and give s the message i try to instill in them in my teaching – thank you for the new interpretation of Isaiah
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