02.23.2023 | Thursday in Lent

Create in me a clean heart, O Lord and have mercy on me according to your endless love.  Today I am presented with a choice.  A choice of life and death.  Which one do I choose?  Do I turn away and act as if I do not hear?  Do I turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to that small voice?  Do I have the courage to actually act on what I hear today?

Today I am given radical freedom, so many choices.  Sometimes I feel like it's so much easier to simply keep doing what I've always done.  It may not feel right.  It may not be the best thing.  Yet, I travel the road more traveled.  I keep on down the same old path because it's easy.  Making decisions can be difficult.  I have so much freedom to choose that I simply don't.  I stick with the familiar.  The easy path.  Today I'm questioning is this what God wants?

Saint Ignatius has a radical prayer.  The "Suscipe," which is Latin for Take.  It goes something like this:

​Take Lord, Receive 
All my liberty,
My memory,
My understanding,
My entire will.
Everything I have and possess.
You have given all to me.  
To you, O Lord, I give it back.
Everything is yours.  
Use me according to your will.
Give me your Love and your Grace.
That's enough for me.

That's enough for me.  That's enough for me.  Take Lord, Receive.