One Prayer A Day For Lent

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Text from the first three paragraphs of "One Prayer a Day for Lent"|The First Four Days of Lent|Ash Wednesday|Lord, it feels like we are embarking on a Lenten journey together, you and I. The beautiful words in the today's prayer talk about the "qui et remembrance of our need for redemption." That feels like what I am looking for - or what you are looking for in me. I want to remember how much I need you in my life and how mu ch my life needs redemption. I want to remember it clearly and in the background of my day today and all through Lent. |On this special day, Ash Wednesday, may my sma ll sacrifices in fasting be a way to clear away the clutter in my life to see you more cl early. May my longing for meat and other food, help me to focus my life today more outside my self. Let me be aware of those who are in so much more suffering than I am and may I be aw are of them as the brothers and sisters you have placed in my life. Lord, I know there is darkness within me and around me. |Bless these days with your Word. Let your Light shine in the darkness. Help me long for that Light until we celebrate it at the Vigil six week s from now. And most of all Lord, help me to honor this day with the ashes on my forehead. They help me remember where I have come from and where I am going. May I acknowledge to you my sins and my deep need for your loving forgiveness and grace. I pray that this Lenten season will make me so much more aware of how much I need your healing in my life.