Prayer:
God of all mercy, do have mercy upon us frail and fragile creatures. Remember that we are but dust. Prepare us for your judgment, lovingly. Amen.
Author: Joy V
Day Twenty-four Friday (March 24)
Prayer:
Lord, bless our dreaming until the day of peace comes. Shelter us when the pains of reality try to extinguish our hopes. Amen.
Day Twenty-three Thursday (March 23)
Prayer:
Loving Lord, help us to realize just how amazing, how necessary, how compelling, how singular your love for us is. Amen.
Day Twenty-two Wednesday (March 22)
Prayer:
Patient Lord, we think that life goes on, we put off all sorts of important things until we are ready, we delay the inevitable. Awaken us to the shortness of life, the tentativeness of our ways, the need to make the most of this moment. Thanks for the chance to do so. Amen.
Day Twenty-one Tuesday (March 21)
Prayer:
Good Lord, thank you for loving us so practically, for the air we breathe, the food we eat, the peace we enjoy, the friends we have, the future you promise, the sins forgiven. Thanks for be a God who delivers, not just talks. Amen.
Day Twenty Monday (March 20)
Prayer:
Gracious Lord, we come up with so many ways to avoid the truth of our lives, we work so hard to get it under control, and we are tired. Give us the grace to realize our error, and put ourselves in your care. Amen.
Day Nineteen Third Sunday in Lent (March 19)
Prayer:
Eternal Lord, your kingdom has broken into our troubled world through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son. Help us to hear your Word and obey it, so that we become instruments of your redeeming love; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Day Eighteen Saturday (March 18)
Prayer:
Eternal God, draw us always through the darkness and shadows of this age toward the new creation promised to us in your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Day Seventeen Friday (March 17)
Prayer:
Lord and Savior, you hold the promise of life before us, beckoning us to lay hold of it in faith and truth. Keep us from the false hopes, the empty promises, the mirages that are all around us, so that we may have the real thing. Amen.
Day Sixteen Thursday (March 16)
Prayer:
Merciful God, teach us to live in paradox – give up so that we can receive, lose in order to find, to die so that we might live – for it is only when you run our lives that we are saved. Amen.