INNER TEMPLE  PRAYER

Lord, this Lent,

walk into this temple called me.

Walk around inside me.

Watch me. Warn me!

Show me the wisdom

of the sign of your cross within me.

Lord, this Lent,

walk into this temple called me.

Show me that sometimes

I spend too much time

buying and selling,

worrying and worshipping things.

I have become a marketplace and a mall,

instead of becoming a temple

filled with your Spirit.

Lord, this Lent,

walk into this temple called me.

Let the zeal for your house

drive out my sheep and my oxen.

Turn over my money tables.

During these days of Lent

challenge me to make better choices

in living your new life,

so that when Easter comes,

I will have become

what you have called all of us to be:

a house of prayer and the house of God.

©  Andy Costello, 

Markings  Prayers

Thomas More Association