I will be with you Lord, today as I fast.

It is a way for me to stay with You

for just one hour.

Wednesdays' fast prepares me

for Fridays' and I keep Your Cross before me.

Without the Cross and all it brings

I'd let slip away the gifts

that are given to me

when I fast for You.



Oh Blessed Mother! These days are dark but filled with light.

I ask for Your strength, to help me on this journey.

I'm following Him but the road is rough,

and I'm pulled from side to side.

Narrow is the path He walks

but He is bright and lights our way.

Thoughts on Lent..

With the focus on, for me, the different aspects of Lent, (fasting, prayer, penance) a quietness settling in on me, as if the world of noise and distraction has been turned down a notch. I find myself not giving to the little things that I didn't think mattered much before, but realize they do matter much, not much a lot. I'm still not very good at work, my buttons get pushed too easily and I find myself in a place I shouldn't be. My workplace brings out the worst in me, I realize that now. It is a challenge every day to see the Lord Jesus before me.

I fail constantly.

And so Lent begins...


I've tried to keep the beginning of Lent out of my mind, or just in a quiet humming stage. I didn't want to get excited or anxious about this time of year, I just wanted to seque in. Whatever. I'm done explaining. All I know is a friend gave me a small Lenten calendar, called My Daily Devotions. The date, what Gospel reading it is for the day is there, etc. But at the bottom it says: "My offering to God: I will anonymously do something kind for someone." Every time I glance at the calendar proped up on my desk my eyes are drawn to that simple offering to God.

I hope I can do it.