Dear God, today I tried a little different pattern. I decided to just read every passage and the commentary from Sacred Invitation: Lenten Devotions Inspired by the Book of Common Prayer before I started writing anything. Just read it all at once. Honestly, I think I like the other way I’ve been doing it better. Oh well. Live and learn.

Here are the passages for today:

• AM Psalms: 61, 62
• PM Psalm: 68
• Jeremiah 2:1-113
• John 4:43-54
• Romans 1:16-25

Frankly, I have a lot going on in my head today. What resonated in my head was the thing from Jeremiah about the love the Israelites once had for you being lost and then the sermon I listened to this morning that Andy Stanley gave this past weekend on Act, Jesus’s ascension, Pentecost, and then the people’s reaction to Peter’s sermon.

Father, I simply need you today. I need your wisdom. Jesus, I simply need you today. I need your strength. Holy Spirit, I simply need you today. I need your counsel, presence, and words. I need you, my Triune God, to ordain my path today so that your kingdom might come and your will might be done on earth, in my life and everything I touch, as it is in heaven. Help me to do that.

I offer this to you in the power and grace of Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit,

Amen