Lent 28

This will be my fourth post in the space of a couple of hours because I missed four. I've missed a few in this season of Lent, but it has become more difficult here in the middle. The middle of Lent slack is upon us. We want to race to the other side, to just be done. And then I think how ridiculous this is because all I've done is given up some sweets and promised to write a couple of paragraphs a day to think about God in my life. What a measly offering, and yet, I can't seem to do it. I pray for the strength to continue the journey with God, not just in the season of Lent, but in all my life. I pray for the strength not to deny, or turn my back and ignore. I pray for the strength and resolve to honor the good gift of grace given to me by a loving God.

Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.

As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the victory win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.

As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.

And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy passiontide,
Yea, evermore in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.

Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suffering over past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last.