Fourth Sunday: Lent Daybook 26

Take a few deep breaths, settle your body, mind, and heart into a quiet space, and let’s begin with prayer.

Opening prayer: Heavenly Father, make me more like Jesus and more like the true self you’ve created as I savor your loving presence today. Please guide my thoughts and impressions by your Holy Spirit. Amen.

Look: Prodigal Son, 1888, John M. Swan -Source

Listen: The Road Home, Stephen Paulus, Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

I also love this song for today’s meditation: Wandering Boy, Randy Newman - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics

Read: Joshua 5:1, 9-12; Psalm 34:1-8; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:11-32

Pray: The Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially). Enjoy something you've given up, giving thanks to Christ for the abundance we receive from his obedience and great love.

We also feast on poetry! Read this week’s poem, “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, and spend a few moments preparing for the fourth full week of Lent.

*Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year C of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 2)