This post is a continuation of a series for those who, like me, would like to engage the season of Lent in a meaningful way, but who, like me, also benefit from the encouragement of others while we do that. Â We all realize that the blogosphere cannot grant us the true community that Christ taught us to live in. Â But it does afford us the opportunity to learn together, to share our thoughts and experiences, and then take those into our day to day lives.
These posts are from the book, by Stanley Hauerwas. Â If you take some scripture that you are reading and reflecting on and add to it these prayers, my prayer will be that the Holy Spirit speaks his love into your soul.
“Spirit of Truth, direct our attention to the life of Jesus so that we might see what you would have us be. Make us, like him, teachers of your good law. Make us, like him, performers of miraculous cures. Â Make us, like him, loving of the poor, the outcast, children. Â Make us, like him, silent when the world tempts us to respond in the world’s terms. Â Make us, like him, ready to suffer. Â We know we cannot be like Jesus except as Jesus was unlike us, being your Son. Â Make us cherish that unlikeness, that we may grow into the likeness made possible by Jesus’ resurrection. AMEN.” Â Stanley Hauerwas
Peace, Jim
