Week 1 Lenten Disciplines Focus: Prayer and Solitude

Deeper Journey: Lent 2015

Prayer & Solitude

Inner stillness. Living fully present with God.

 

 

       Practice Starters      

     ·  Create a prayer space in your home. Whenever someone is in this space, it

         means they are praying and are given space to do so.

       ·  Start a prayer journal.

       ·  Spend 10 minutes a day alone in silence to sit in God’s presence.

     ·  Guide your prayers with ACTS: Adoration (praise God), Confession,

         Thanksgiving, Supplication (your needs and the needs of others).

 

 

We invite you to share the ways that you are observing Lent this year. What disciplines are you taking on and/or what might you be trying to give up? What questions do you have about particular Spiritual Disciplines? Do you have a particular book that has been helpful for you?

 

Lent

          Lent is a time to take time

               to let the power of our faith story take hold of us,
          a time to let the events get up

               and walk around in us,
          a time to intensify

               our living unto Christ, 

          a time to hover over

               the thoughts of our hearts,
          a time to place our feet in the streets of Jerusalem

               or to talk along the sea and listen to his Word,
          a time to touch his robe

               and feel the healing surge through us,
          a time to ponder and a time to wonder…

         Lent is a time to allow a fresh new taste of God!

                                                   ─Ann Weems