Kirkepiscatoid

Got home this evening and started "Thinking about Lent."

Here is my prayer for the season this year...

Almighty God, remind us daily in this Lenten season that to turn is to uncover. In the center of the dry pile of fallen leaves, lying fallow in our long winter of brokenness, is warm, rich humus crying for new green shoots of the renewed life of spring.

Uncover our fears; within them is the ability to hope.

Uncover our anger; within it is intense caring which we fear to articulate.

Uncover our shame over sins long past; sins long forgiven by God but not by us; within it lies the power to change the future.

Uncover our covetousness; within it is true awareness of our real and most basic needs.

Uncover our contentiousness; within it is reconciliation.

Uncover our sense of blame; within it lies recognition of our own faults.

Uncover our withdrawal and avoidance; within it hides our truest desires.

Uncover our most acute pain; within it awaits long-buried, long-neglected delight.

Uncover our dismissiveness; within it rests new discoveries, new levels of mindfulness.

Uncover us, Lord. Strip our thorny bark, peel back the masking tape that covers our cracks, dig the tar and debris from the potholes of our souls. Abrade us down to the rough metal, so that your gift of a renewed spirit bonds us to our true selves and to each other.

Almighty God, Lamb of God, Wind of God…uncover us.

Amen.