Lent Prayer

“Dear God, I confess I may not fully understand Lent’s “how” and “why”. I ask you to speak to me now. In the quiet aloneness of my time with you, search me for any selfish motives or sins I cling to that are sapping me of the life you desire. Prepare my heart for what you would have me forgo, and strengthen me to seek you instead. Wake me, Lord, if I am blind to my patterns of self-destruction. Show me what it is that I can live more fully without. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”