Hi God,
Here it’s Ash Wednesday again.
We begin a time when
we try to be more faithful.
The truck I passed today,
on my way back from the prayer vigil,
said, “Do or not do. There is no try”.
I guess that means either
we will be more faithful for a time
or we will not.
It sounds too black and white to me.
I prefer the point of view
I learned from meditation,
to paraphrase,
“now and again is good
regular is better”.
That says to me that
merely striving has merit,
even when we fall short occasionally.
So my prayer today
is that you help us
actually to pray every day during Lent,
but, if we only pray now and again,
help us to realize that
even that will be good.
Also, I ask you please
to have mercy on my soul
sinner though I surely be.
Amen