Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Dear God,

You made me for Lent.  You knew my mind and soul would fill up with sin.  You knew I would need a washing before you could put a clean heart within me.  Lent is the perfect time for cleansing.  But a clean heart does not give me the right to be a righteous, arrogant Christian.  Which, of course, leads me right back to a sinful fill up.

O God, how I long to carry you deep within me.  I want to say words that lift up not tear down.  I want to uphold goodness and mercy not fill the world with more meanness and arrogance.  I want to offer mercy not judgement.  I want to give love not hate.

Let Lent

be my call,

Compassion God,

a call

to rightful living,

caring ways

and a

tender heart.

I simply

cannot be that

without you.

Fill me

with more

of you

and less

of me,

I pray.

Love, Andrea

Love, Andrea