Full to the Brim Poetry for Lent
Full to the Brim Poetry for Lent
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE
This collection of 11 poetic prayers explores our Full to the Brim: An expansive Lent weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year C) scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed.
DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
12 pg PDF print-ready file of the prayers (for you to print and distribute to members, or copy/paste for worship liturgy).
PDF includes 12 poetic prayers with the following themes and titles:On My Way | Full to the Brim { With all that you are (Ash Wednesday)
From Here in the Sand | Full to the Brim { Even in the desert (1st Sunday in Lent)
Come Rain or Shine | Full to the Brim { Under God’s wing (2nd Sunday in Lent)
What I Forgot | Full to the Brim { You are worthy (3rd Sunday in Lent)
What Doesn’t Play by the Rules | Full to the Brim { Prodigal grace (4th Sunday in Lent)
Grace | Full to the Brim { Prodigal grace (4th Sunday in Lent)
Lessons from a Winter Rose | Full to the Brim { Brazen acts of beauty (5th Sunday in Lent)
Even the Stones Will Cry Out | Full to the Brim { Even the stones cry out (Palm/Passion Sunday)
Water Marks | Full to the Brim { Take off your shoes (Maundy Thursday)
It Is Finished | Full to the Brim { A cup of sorrow (Good Friday)
New Life Is Right Here | Full to the Brim { An expansive life (Easter)
USES:
Print the prayers and distribute them to members in your community
Adapt the prayers as your Call to Worship or opening prayer for worship
Use the prayers in a bible study group or Sunday school
Use the poetry as a meditation during the sermon
Use the poetry to inspire your own liturgy and sermon writing
Print the poetry in your bulletin (perhaps as the bulletin cover)
EXCERPT:
I come into the room
ready to apologize,
ready to make amends,
ready to tell you all the things I’ll do to make it better,
but you put your arms around me.
Grace is the ocean
that softens the edges.
Grace is rain in the desert—
you’re not sure whether to
laugh, cry, or dance.
Grace is a miracle,
all by itself.
In a scorekeeping world,
grace doesn’t play by the rules.
—Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed, excerpt from “What Doesn’t Play by the Rules”
CREDIT INFO:
When printing and sharing online or in worship, please always include the following credits:
Prayers by Rev. Sarah Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org
