Lent is a season of prayer, reflection, and renewal. This week, I want to share a Lenten prayer to help us seek the Lord on this wilderness journey. May it be a blessing to your heart and help you draw closer to Jesus, the One who walks with you day by day. Jesus loves you, Union Family, and I do too!
Gracious and Loving God,
As we enter this Lenten season, we come just as we are.
We come, dust and breath, faith and questions, hope and weariness.
Slow us down, Lord. Quiet the noise that fills our days and still the restlessness within us.
Help us hear your voice again, the voice that calls us “beloved,” forgiven, and free.
In these forty days, teach us how to let go of what weighs us down.
Where we have rushed ahead of you, teach us patience.
Where we have trusted ourselves more than you, teach us surrender.
Where we have been wounded or have wounded others, teach us repentance and grace.
Walk with us through the wilderness places with us.
Walk with us in the honest places.
Walk with us in the uncomfortable places.
Remind us that you are near, forming us, reshaping us, renewing us in love.
We offer you our lives and our stories.
We offer you the parts we are proud of and the parts we long to see redeemed.
We trust that you are always at work.
We trust you are writing grace where we thought the story was finished.
O Lord, each day during this season of reflection and renewal, lead us toward the cross with humility and toward resurrection with hope, remembering that Jesus gave his life for us all.
We pray in Jesus’ name, the One who walks with us, waits for us, and loves us completely.
Amen.