Prayers For Lent
Country Prayer for Lent
Dear Lord, we are now in the holy season of Lent. We begin to realize anew that
these are the days of salvation, these are the acceptable days. We know that we
are all sinners. We know that in many things we have all offended Your infinite
majesty. We know that sin destroys Your life in us as a drought withers the
leaves and chokes the life from the land, leaving an arid, dusty desert. Help us
now, Lord, in our feeble attempts to make up for past sin. Bless our efforts
with the rich blessing of Your grace. Make us realize ever more our need of
penance and of mortification. Help us to see, in our ordinary difficulties and
duties, in the trials and temptations of every day, the best opportunity of
making up for past infidelities. Every day we are so often reminded in field and
wood, in sky and stream, of Your own boundless generosity to us. Help us to
realize that You are never outdone in generosity, and that the least thing we do
for You will be rewarded, full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and
flowing over. Then we shall see, in our own souls, how the desert can blossom,
and the dry and wasted land can bring forth the rich, useful fruit that was
expected of it from the beginning. Amen.