Nearly Spring

Awaken me like the early spring

Ready in anticipation of abundant Life

Call me gently to You

Oh God of life, peace, and love

Direct my growth and yearnings

Set right my aching heart

Squelch the burning of passions

Hush the chatter of foolishness

I must prepare a place for planting

Seeds of eternal hope and tranquility

Working in symbiosis

To reveal fruits from seedling

The night will guard the Mysteries kept

With quiet solitude and prayer

As day begins anew in magnificence

Offering the hope of life eternal

As the birds call to You in earnest

Hear also the prayer of one divided 

Between a life that can be seen 

And one that is Forever in You

Stir contrition and prayer in me

I wish to lay up myself

Take up the cross which is given

Diligently, ardently follow You for all eternity