Monday before Lent
February 12, 2024

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Continuing from yesterday:

• To help me more truly engage this Lenten time, I considered some proven elements from our long Christian tradition. I thought some of you might like to think about these as well. These three elements are:
• Practice
• Time
• Reflection

On Sunday, we thought about “Lenten Practice”. Today, “Lenten Time”. Tomorrow, “Lenten Reflection”

Lenten Time
What time in my day might I reclaim for deepening my relationship with God in prayer and reflection?
Re-ordering our use of time is a great spiritual discipline. I can choose:

• to dedicate a specific time slot to silence, prayer, and/or service. This dedicated time can be as short as a few minutes before we engage the ignition in our car, or as long as a dedicated Sunday to silence and prayer
• to forego a daily TV show to instead do spiritual reading
• to retire and rise earlier throughout Lent so that I have morning time to focus my day on God

What is essential is to focus our attention on God as we engage this simple practice, to make our actions a prayer.
A final thought tomorrow.