Monthly Archives: April 2014

Lent Prayer 36 – April 9

Lent Prayer 36 brothers and sisters saints wait   for the unveiling of new eyes   that see what they see   new worlds possible with grace.   lord I want to be in that number   when the saints … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 35 – April 8

Lent Prayer 35 in the garden a knowledge was sought   that we could not deal with   of good and evil not as measures   but from the inside.   that dark knowing breaks us still.   deliver us … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 34 – April 7

Lent Prayer 34 quiet. night. silence moving about while our minds weave in and out, dreaming our ways into tastes of something we cannot express.   you come to us in dreams.   of wheat stalks, of angels and ladders … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 33 – April 6

Lent Prayer 33 how’m I doin’ the mayor said   am I living up to what you had in mind   am I letting down the side   or surprising you with my wit   how’m I doin’ I ask … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 32 – April 5

Lent Prayer 32 give me a heart to see your hand   in faces and places smiles and cries   in anguish and anger   hope and help   the fact of your presence   amidst us all. ———————

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Lent Prayer 31 – April 4

Lent Prayer 31 storms come back around, like life crashes   we thought were over but weren’t.   protect us Lord from despair, defeat, from going under   when we are most vulnerable at the end of   frayed hopes. … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 30 – April 3

Lent Prayer 30 You give us tasks that push and pull us beyond our depths and yet to our deepest desires.   thank you for the gifts that we do not call for yet appreciate when they have arrived. —————–

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Lent Prayer 29 – April 2

Lent Prayer 29 I want to pray for some who have violated   friendships, faith, community   but how can we forgive in your name when our hands and hearts were not   among the wounded. —————-

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Lent Prayer 28 – April 1

Lent Prayer 28 Spring waters flow through the ice sluice like grace melting away at my frozen sins. first a seep, then a trickle, then a roar at the joy that flows free when we let it. —————-

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