(For the First Sunday of Lent)
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:5-13
What does it really mean
To take a step back?
How can I even begin to tell when
I have filled up my routines to capacity,
And there is no room left for You?
Who do I think I am
To have taken over the every spaces
Inside of me (the places You should be)?
Why do I incessantly try to
Push You out and away,
Even after the most brief of meetings?
When might there be a good time
To arrange another visit
(Since I’m kinda lonely these days)?
And Where should I throw
All of this junk? It’s getting rather annoying
And it’s starting to pin me in.
A little help (or maybe a lot?) would be nice…
APN
Copyright 02/25/2007
March 5th, 2007 12:08
Lent is an excellent time to frame these questions too… we are somehow more open to discussing broad change.
The use of questions in this piece is effective too… it could almost stand as a liturgy… read as prompts with long silences between.