day 25, lent 2009

happy saturday...

we are now two weeks away from palm sunday...

only three weeks away from easter sunday...

today, nouwen's daily prayer spoke to me...

"o Lord, this holy season of lent is passing quickly.
i entered into it with fear,
but also with great expectations.
i hoped for a great breakthrough,
a powerful conversion, a real change of heart;
i wanted easter to be a day so full of light
that not even a trace of darkness
would be left in my soul.
but i know that you do not come to your people
with thunder and lightning...
let me be thankful for your gentle way.
i know you are at work.
i know you will not leave me alone.
i know you are quickening me for easter --
but in a way fitting to my own history
and my own temperament.

i pray that these last three weeks,
in which you invite me to enter more fully
into the mystery of your passion,
will bring me a greater desire to follow you
on the way that you create for me
and to accept the cross that you give to me.
let me die to the desire
to choose my own way and select my own cross.
you do not want to make me a hero,
but a servant who loves you.
be with me tomorrow and in the days to come,
and let me experience your gentle presence...
amen"

shalom...

guy

happy Lord's day!