Two thoughts on what to offer God during Lent:
When lent comes around we have a hard time thinking up something ascetical to do, some sacrifice to make. Why not just decide to focus on whatever job or tasks we actually have to do — with all our heart and mind and soul? We may indeed discover our work to be more sacramental than we realize, a veritable rendezvous with God we’ve overlooked too long.
Geoff Wood
Psalm 69
Lord, the world I live in has become a swamp.
Voices far more powerful and seductive than min
Make the trivial important and the meaningful trite —
Love, loyalty and death are now just toys and games
Played by beautiful children in grown-up bodies
Before grimly docile, dourly etherized millions.
How do I coax the grateful dead to life?
To them, what I offer and live is preposterous!
Offering self-forgetfulness to the self-absorbed?
Sacrifice to those who scorn even inconvenience?
Whi honor commitments until they begin to cost?
At times I grow disheartened like Elijah, Jeremiah,
And all idealist fools who get hooted from the orgy.
Stiffen my spine! Fire my heart! Ignite my soul!
My unfailing trust is my offering to You.