“Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom …
Choose life! – Deut 30:15
Lord Jesus,
On this Lenten pilgrimage towards
new life with you
you invite me to deny myself, take
up my cross, and follow you
daily, today.
Through Moses’ final instruction
to the people as they enter the Promised Land
you beckon me to “choose life!”
Yet, like them, I am impatient; I
complain; I don't really trust
myself or you.
I’d rather return to my old ways
of being and doing,
where I am comfortable, albeit
enslaved by less than life-giving choices.
It’s not yet clear to me which
Lenten practices I will embrace
which vices to give up,
which
virtues to take up,
so I might return to you with my whole
heart.
Fasting from indifference and
consumerism
so I can promote greater justice for others?
Giving alms by sharing time, kindness,
care to others and the earth?
Praying to foster greater space or
attentiveness to you,
to what’s deeper within me?
I believe that for something
greater to rise, something lesser has to fall away.
It’s just that life-giving choices
involve dying to what’s comfortable for me.
Let me lean on the solid ground
that you’re already choosing me
to create me anew in every moment,
with each breath, with each heartbeat,
offering choices to magnify life
in all of us.
Let me lean on your steadfast
mercy, faithful Love
that you will never leave me
though I may leave you
that you trust me
though I may not trust you
that you wait for me
to draw out greater life in me,
with you, for others.
Lord, help me choose life
choose you in me,
today, now,
through the cross of whatever,
whoever I do not like and resist
embracing.
Your hesitant pilgrim,
Tri
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