Lent prepares us for Easter by asking us to do the very thing Jesus did for us–sacrifice something of ourselves.
What is Lent? Lent is a period of 40 days leading up to Easter in which participants usually fast or give up a chosen personal pleasure. This abstinence can be anything, such as giving up a type of food or avoiding a bad habit. Some use Lent as a time to start a new positive
What if we view this desert time of Lent as not just a time to reflect or to lament or to confess or to fast, but a time where we learn to be free.
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Lent is the autumn of the spiritual life during which we gather fruit to keep us going for the rest of the year.
If the invitation of Lent is to practice abstaining from something to focus more fully on who God is and how God is at work in the world, then I need to fast from my dependence on criticism.
Each year, around the latter part of winter, Lent arrives. It nearly always surprises me. Here it is, once again, summoning me to change how I typically live.
No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did.—Luke 13:3 (CEB)
Without the breath of God, we are but dust. On the brink of Lent, Ash Wednesday helps us remember the life and death stakes in our own stories.
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