FINDING PEACE=A SEASON OF RENEWAL

FINDING PEACE=A SEASON OF RENEWAL


Today=is the first day of LENT=
We once AGAIN=
Enter a season of RENEWAL
And HOPE for us


THROUGH God's grace=during LENT=
We CAN once again
Experience a CONVERSION of the HEART


“Have MERCY on me=O God=
In your goodness


In the greatness
Of your COMPASSION
Wipe out my offense” Psalm 51:3


This conversion entails a TURNING
Of our heart back toward God


This CONVERSION entails TWO THINGS=
Finding PEACE with God=and finding peace
With our sisters and brothers in Christ


CONVERTING our hearts to LOVE and forgiveness
For all=
TURN your hearts toward God


“Turn from evil and
DO GOOD
Seek PEACE and
Pursue it” Psalm 34:14


“Get words=get UNDERSTANDING
Do NOT forget my words=
Or turn away
From them” Proverbs 4:5


“Repent then=
And TURN to God
So that


Your sins may be
Wiped out


That times of REFRESHING
May COME from the Lord” Acts 3:19


Lent is a time for RENEWAL
It is a time/THE TIME
When we should make


A determined EFFORT
To forgive those
Who have hurt us


And we should make AMENDS=
To those of whom we have offended
In whatever WAY that we can


MAKING PEACE with God
And others are INSEPARABLE=
They go hand and hand


It is a time
For REACHING OUT to others


Lent is a time
For finding PEACE=LENT is
A time for RENEWAL
Of our hearts to God and
To OTHERS


“.............
Who satisfies your desires
With GOOD things


So that your youth
Is RENEWED=like the eagle's” Psalm 103:5


“Therefore=we do NOT
Lose heart


Tough outwardly
We are wasting away
Yet INWARDLY=


We are BEING RENEWED
Day by day” 2 Corinthians 4:16


“................
He saved us
NOT because of the righteous things
We have done
But because of his MERCY


He SAVED us
Through the washing of rebirth
And RENEWAL
By the HOLY SPIRIT
…............” Titus 3:5


Dear Lord=HELP US to do our BEST
To right our wrongs
In the coming weeks


So that we may FIND PEACE
WITHIN OURSELVES


It is a time of RENEWAL
And REBIRTH for us


In the names of Jesus and HIS MOST LOVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
2-13-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James Stephen Behrens, O.C.S.O.