Sometime this fall my publisher will be publishing a book I wrote as a guide through the season of Lent. It deals with the problems of evil, sin, suffering and death, among other things. While I was proof reading it today, I thought to give a taste of the book in this space by quoting one of my quotes, a prayer by a Jesuit by the name of Joseph Tetlow, SJ from his book, Choosing Christ in the World.
Eternal Lord of all things, I feel Your gaze on me.
I sense that Your mother stands near,
and the great beings crowd around You,
angels and powers and martyrs and saints.
If You will help me, please,
I would like to make an offering:
I want it to be my desire, and my choice,
provided that You want it this way,
to walk this earth the way You walked it.
I know that You lived in a little town,
without luxury, without great education.
I know that You refused political power.
I know that You suffered: Leaders rejected You.
Friends abandoned you. You failed.
I know. I hate to think about it.
None of it looks romantic to me, or very useful.
But it seems to me a toweringly wonderful thing
that Your divine majesty might call me
to follow after You. Amen
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