Places of Rest, A Lenten Prayer:
Holy One, Help me pause just enough To notice Your invitation
To step off my harried path
And accept Your invitation
To the rest that truly resets.

Let the seat You offer
Be the reminder I need
To trust Your promise
To lighten every weariness
With Your renewing pause.

Yes, grant me grace
To turn aside and notice
Your outstretched mercy seat
Already waiting for me
To discover
Your holy gift
Of rest that renews my body
And restores my soul.

Grant me courage
To give up my plans
Just enough to receive
The gift You offer
With outstretched invitations
Revealed at every turn.

Let this seat of grace
Position my body and soul
To noticed anew your creation
Often overlooked in my rush
To tend my anxious worry.

Yes, by this of
Your invitation
Made known in Christ
Grant me grace to trust
Your necessary call to rest
And through it receive
The joy You yearn to offer.

-DMLH, March 2025