Monday In the Fifth Week of Lent

“For minds to think, and hearts to love, and hands to serve, We thank you, Lord. – The Book of Common Prayer, p.837

What a wonderful summation of our calling. Most of the time I over think and stew too much. I look for signs of God’s call for me and wait, and wait, and wait. I don’t venture forward, worried I don’t have the qualifications or authority to act against injustice or cruelty. I head to a corner when there is God’s work to be done,  saying surely somebody smarter than me will address this problem, somebody with a purer heart has more credibility, or someone with more money or status will be more successful.

I need to remember an old football drill. The coach would hold a huge canvas dummy, and we were supposed to fire out from a stance, hit the dummy, drive it back, and then drop back down to our stance and repeat the drill up and down the field until exhausted. I can hear my coach yelling – “hit, drive, drop, now repeat!”

During Lent we “Think, Love, Serve, now repeat.”  “Think, Love, Serve, now repeat.”

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.