2/21/07
Dear Lord God, this Lent, I feel as if it is my first real surrender to You with a heightened awareness and realization of meaning as to just how I must continue die to myself so I can rise again in and with You; so as the daily reflection reminds me I come to Your with praise and to worship, but humbly seeking Your divine forgiveness, mercy, grace, healing and help for without you I can do nothing. But in and with You all things are possible, so help me to die to the ways and things under the sun, and rise with You on this coming Easter Sunday, so I can finish my walk under the sun with true eyes of faith, filled with the hope that comes from true belief and confidence in You and Your promises so that I may produce the fruits of perfect unconditional love and be a light on the hill that leads to Your Kingdom of Heaven. In the name of my Holy Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.
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You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love – and only love. Love can do all things.
— St Therese of Lisieux
12 “Yet even now,” says the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. 14 Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the LORD, your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly; 16 gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. 17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare thy people, O LORD, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, `Where is their God?'” 18 Then the LORD became jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
Dear Lord God, I ask for Your help and guidance this lent to help to bring my physical body under control and disciplined by a strengthened spiritual soul filled with faith, hope and love; let each of my love ones that read this know that I lift them up to You with thanksgiving for being blessed with them in my life and in prayer for You to blessings, grace and mercy.
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 12 Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance. 17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Dear Lord God, Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world; for the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Dear Lord Jesus, I know that with out You I would not be able to come now before You and my Lord God, for it is only through Your Passion that I am made presentable to Him and yet I am humbled and humiliated by Your sacrifice and the knowledge of all I have chosen to do wrong, and more so all that I failed to do; yet for Your sake I know that I must overcome my weaknesses and guilt ,and return to You in praise and to worship, strengthened by Your presence in me and fruitful because I reflect Your image in all I think, say and do.
1 “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 “Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 16 “And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Dear Lord God, help me to be pure in my intent, protect me from myself, reminding me always that I all have is because of You and that all the glory, honor and praise belongs to You. Let me be a light that shines for You and never seeks anything but to fulfill Your will and purpose. Help to be servant minded I all I do.
/ raangulo
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