Yes to Easter!

Yes to Easter!

Yes to the new creation! Yes to Christ is Risen! Yes to all that I do not understand about this new beginning! Alleluia! This year I am neither exhausted nor “sooo ready for Lent and Easter to be over.” What is different from past Lents was not bingeing on...
Two Weeks of Lent–A Visual Diary

Two Weeks of Lent–A Visual Diary

I love this one-day-at-a-time, one tear-at-a-time journey through Lent. Lent for Everyone–Year C by N.T. Wright is a thoughtful combination of Scripture and reflection. The devotional includes a daily reading from Luke followed by a meditation from the author....
Additional Calendar Templates for Lent

Additional Calendar Templates for Lent

Lent starts this coming Wednesday, March 6! Here are two additional Lenten Calendar Templates. Click on the version you want below the picture; download; and print. The first one with the hearts was created by Pat Maier of Visual Faith Ministry. It has 40 spaces. For...

Lenten Calendar Templates for 2015

I love using a calendar template for Lent because it gives me a one-day-at-a-time, concrete, manageable way to have a daily practice for the 40 (or 46) days before Easter. If you like more space than a piece of 8 1/2″ x11″ paper affords, go to a copy store...

Lenten Calendar 2014–Final

Here is my finished calendar for this Lent. I used no words, just drew crosses everyday. It was a wordless Lent in terms of the calendar and I didn’t miss them. But as usual I wish I could take back some words I said and said some words I didn’t say during...