Lent Time

Ash Wednesday comes and it is Lent again,
‘tis time to put my shoulder to the wheel,
I fear in faith I’m forced to face my sin,
make no mistake, I’m willing, for it’s real.

I just hate pain, it cuts me like a knife,
but now it’s Lent and time to pay the price,
Christ agonized He had to pay His life,
and yet He willed to make the sacrifice.

The ashes leave no ambiguity,
my body, come from dust, ends up as dust,
it suffers, so from sin my soul’s set free,
like Christ, time to endure it as I must.

Like Christ, I offer, Lord, this time for You,
then time for Easter Resurrection too.

                    by Pete Voelz     3/5/14