Good morning, good God!
It has begun, Lord: the week we call Holy...
I've read that theologians argue
over whether or not time, or some unit of time,
can actually be holy...
I'll leave that to the scholars this morning
and simply wonder about my growing in holiness
in the week ahead...
Just shy of four days left in Lent, Lord,
and those are my last four chances in 2011
to live as a Lenten Christian...
Four days to be more faithful to prayer,
morning or night or in between,
or whenever you and I can sit down
and just have a chat, one-on-one,
just the two of us, Lord...
Four days to deny myself
some taste or sip, some pleasure or toy,
and experience the emptiness denial creates,
the hunger it leaves to be fed
and the chance to wonder
how I might fill and feed the void...
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