Here’s
a prayer for the first Sunday in Lent. It was written by Rev. Scott McKenna and
posted on the Church of Scotland’s Weekly
Worship page.
Prayer for the First Sunday of Lent
(inspired by Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:9-15, Luke 4:1-13)
The
desert is a place of emptiness, solitude and silence.
It
is a home of jackals, snakes and inner demons, beasts of the soul.
The
Spirit of God led Jesus into such a place:
in
our aloneness, in our darkness, we are never alone.
Let
us pray.
In
this sacred space,
in
these moments of stillness,
our
thoughts and silence are like incense.
Holy
God,
Whose
glory touches and transfigures the mind and the material,
Whose
intimate, gentle Spirit embraces our vulnerability
and
fills our empty spaces with hope,
may
we know the deep calm that only You can give.
Through
the mystery of absence and presence,
come,
fill us with Your emptiness,
Your
eternal silence. Amen.
~
excerpted from a longer prayer by Rev Scott Mckenna, Minister of Edinburgh
Mayfield Salisbury. Posted on the Weekly
Worship page of the Church of
Scotland website.