Lent: a wilderness, a journey, a temptation

A wilderness, a turning, a calling.

A wilderness, an encounter, a renewing.

A wilderness, a taking up, a folding away.

A wilderness, a movement, a season.

A wilderness, a vision, a preparing.

Come and meet God,

who calls us beyond where we are now,

to where love will find itself to be.

God of all our journeys, you call us out from where we are into a wilderness

where everything longs to be restored and held afresh.

Grant us the strength to journey this Lent,

Give us new hearts to discover the road less travelled.

Amen.