From the bulletin for the Ash Wednesday service: Lent Prose
Our choir sings “Lent Prose” at services throughout Lent. The music is beautiful; the words, a wonderful prayer.
We ask God to do what he loves to do: have mercy on us when we stop deceiving ourselves about sin and turn to him for mercy.
Lent in the dark
Lent in the dark
Early
darkness outside,
rain rattling windows,
staccato punctuation accompanies meditation.
Turning, reflecting, searching:
Wherefore darkness
within?
Blessing
and cursing,
my stumbling speech:
products of my heart –
unnaturally mixed fruit
meekly seeking
wisdom.
JM
March 6, 2014
40 words 40 days
During Lent, I will write forty words a day.
A friend had challenged me to “write redemptively”, and I sort of knew what that meant a few weeks ago, and I want to write things that are an improvement over a blank page. I think that I can manage to come up with forty words that are not drivel – besides I like to write, it’s just that I don’t write much.
So, this year I’m giving up the empty space – the vacuum of words that were not written.
Apparently that was 90 words – no I’m not being legalistic and counting that as 2.25 days’ worth!
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