Lent continued

Lord, I so wish to prepare well for this time.

I so want to make all of me ready and attentive and available to you.

Please help me to clarify and purify my intentions.
I have so many contradictory desires.

I get preoocupied with things that don't really matter or last.

I know that if I give you my heart, whatever I do will follow my new heart.


In all that I am today, all that I try to do,

all my encounters, reflections - even the frustrations and failings

and especially in this time of prayer,

in all of this may I place my life in your hands.


Lord, I am yours.


Make of me what you will.


Amen.



-St. Ignatius, The Spiritual Exercises; no. 46