Day Two

"He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickedness."

The focus of the written prayers and psalms that I've been using for this discipline so far has been repentance and confession and last night duirng my Vespers prayers I felt a profound sense of penitence that went beyond normal confession and seeking forgiveness. I had an experience that I can honestly say was one of those Kairos moments when the Spirit of God communicated with my Spirit (or was it the other way around?) and there was a connection that swent beyond the words I was reading and praying. It was almost spooky, and for a moment - even though I had the lines to pray in front of me - I was at a loss for words. It was in the midst of a recitation of the Anglican "Litany of Penitence" that I experienced God - and I'm excited that several days before I came across it in my prayers, I had scheduled its reading in our Sunday Service. I'm excited to see if anyone else meets God in this prayer.

Day two of this Lenten journey has been a little different than day one. For starters my boys decided to wake me up BEFORE my scheduled 6:30 alarm so there was no excuse for prayer-related tardiness today. After attending to the increasingly earlier mornihg pacification routine I headed down to the basement to begin morning prayers with God.

Midday prayers took on a different sort of flavour today as I was trapped inside a minivan heading down the highway to rendezvous with my in-laws in Bismarck for a little getaway when the hour came upon me. I had asked Jo to drive to facilitate my prayer time but the kids in the back weren't going to let me turn off the second play through of Toy Story 2 while I prayed and Jo told me she would find it distracting if I did my usual pattern of praying these prayers out loud. So for midday prayers today I silently read and meditated on the words while being accompanied by the dramatic stylings of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Co, and desperately trying not to get motion sick (I can't read in cars) at the same time.

Unsurprisingly, there were no epiphanies this afternoon.