Prayer for a Good Lent

 

O holy and mysterious Creator and Sustainer of all,

We thank you for this season—

For these forty days of spring, renewal, and repentance.

We thank you for the gift of reflection and the capacity to repent.

We ask that you bless us with insight into our deep and beautiful souls,

Made in your image by your very hands.

 

We ask that we enter into your discipline and

Use this time well to deepen our curiosity about your mysterious life.

We ask that you bless us with gentle charity toward all whom we meet, and

Toward ourselves. 

We ask that this season be a time of joyous search for truth,

So that at Easter we may enter your rich fields of true enlightenment.

 

Amen.

 

 

February 11, 2008