Prayers and Poems for Lent
A Prayer from Deb Judas
I wrote this prayer in response to a webinar I participated in, looking at the Lord’s Prayer through Lenten eyes. As we prayed, studied and discussed the first two lines of the Lord’s Prayer, I found myself stopping and suddenly seeing with new eyes, the dichotomy in this relationship with God. Bigger than words can describe, yet total accessibility with the Lord of the universe. It felt like the most unlikely of friendships and yet... it works because of the Lord’s graciousness and tenderness.
A Lenten Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in Heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
This gives me deep pause.
These words will not allow me to move forward.
I have unwittingly been drawn into the awe and mystery of Your being.
Astonished by the telescopic expanse of Your greatness.
Your holiness.
The wonder of Your power and loving nature is all-encompassing.
Reverence is demanded. And yet,
I am intrigued by Your cosmic omnipotence
as it relates to my own down-here-on-earth microscopic experience.
The immediacy and urgency of my own predicament calls me to ask
How do I hallow You?
Here and now in this place where I am.
How do I uphold the holiness of Your name?
My Father in heaven.
This Lenten season in all its discomfort,
exposing the depravity of my human experience
brings with it an invitation.
To enter in
To the grandeur of Your presence.
To falteringly place myself under Your tender gaze
and open my heart to the work of Your cross.
To humbly dust off my soul
And make way for healing to come.
May Your will be done,
On earth as it is Heaven.
Amen
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