Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

I filled out my bracket
with confidence and care—

but heaven is not won
by predictions.

The Judge does not consult
my rankings.

He only asks:

What did you do
with the grace
you were given?

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent (Optional Memorial of Saint Patrick, Bishop)

I say I am doing well—
and perhaps I am.

But Christ asks a deeper question
than grammar can answer.

Not “How are you?”
but

“Do you want to be well?”

Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Life writes its plans in pencil,
God answers them in ink.

We promise perfect faith—
unless the world interrupts.

But grace waits patiently
somewhere along the road
between prayer
and home.

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Parents learn the strangest truth of all:
children are not merely born to them—
they are born for them.

For a child can open blind eyes
more surely than clay and water,
and teach a grown man to see
the Kingdom of God.

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

My ledger swells with borrowed grace,
Yet still I claim another’s place;
Lord wipe the books my pride has kept—
For mercy paid my endless debt.

Monday of the Third Week of Lent

My fist once preached a sermon loud,
A dent beneath a holy shroud;
But Christ walked calm through rage and cry—
And taught my anger how to die.