How will you practice Lent?

This year Lent begins on March 6th and ends on the 18th of April. People often practice Lent by giving something up, saving the money they would usually have spent for a charity, or for the church. Some people use the time to find space to explore a spiritual practice, pray, or a bible study. How will you practice Lent this year?

Here are some ideas:

Choose a family/household practice to work on. Perhaps your household/family could read a book together, read through a gospel together, pick up rubbish together, or find time to pray together every day. If you’d like a family devotional Darren has a few that may be useful.

You might want to start a gratitude wall as a family, every day sharing with each other something you are grateful for, writing, painting or drawing these things on paper. Over Lent you could post your reflections of gratitude on a wall in the house creating a visual memory of all that you’re grateful for.

Perhaps you’d like to practice hospitality over Lent and invite a family or someone from church (or a neighbour) to your place for a meal each week, someone you don’t know well, someone new.

Give something up. Things you could give up over Lent… Television, meat, sugar, coffee, driving to the shops (or school or work), perhaps you could give up showers or baths and only wash from a bucket (Holly’s done this in the past), what about giving up computer games, fast food or food waste?