Lent Prayer
This is a responsive prayer on the themes of Lent. It reflects Jesus' temptations in the wilderness, and how they relate to us today. It would work at other times of the year too, but is particularly apt at the beginning of Lent.
Extract from the prayer:
Lord as we struggle each day to discern the bread from the stones, the truth from the fiction, your word from the lies;
Please help us and guide us and give us your strength.
Lord as we struggle each day to discern the difference between trusting you and testing you, following your word and manipulating it, your ways and our ways;
Please help us and guide us and give us your strength.
Lord as we wrestle each day to resist the temptation to worship the wrong things, to see through the distractions that confound and confuse us, to overcome the fears that distract us and depress us...
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