Lent is, indeed, an awkward season. I’ll be writing more about that tomorrow, but for now I wanted to share a prayer from one of the books that has accompanied my fumbling, faulty steps in Lent. It’s a beautiful and compact book called The Awkward Season: Prayers for Lent. Although it’s a bit late to get into it this year, I recommend it highly for next (especially since Lent starts the day before Valentine’s in 2013).
Like an early bloom before last frost,
like impatient rain from still-blue sky,
so too, O God,
it is hard to wait for you.
I am too hurried to let dawn break,
to let shadows fall,
to let courage root
in the soil of my soul.
But I need to learn to let dawn be dawn
and dusk be dusk,
to let you alone be God,
the God of my life.
Amen
from The Awkward Season, p. 42