Lent: Repentance

by Lent Publications

+++Lent - Repentance will be free to download for 5 days from Sunday 11th February 2024 +++ Lent - Repentance reached #3 in 'Christian Living' (Kindle Store). The maximum is available from 'look inside'. It is free in Kindle Unlimited and can be read on KOLL (Kindle Owners’ Lending Library). Please look at other Lent Publication books on the author page. Lent : Repentance can be read on your own or with others, it can be used either for self-reflection or to spark discussion and share insights in a group setting. Lent : Repentance starts on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. It contains bible readings, prayers, reflections, Lent prompts and calls for action. Whether or not you choose to read the extracts multiple times or once straight through, Lent : Repentance will aid you in your journey through Lent and with your personal walk with God. Lent is more than wearing a hair shirt or giving up chocolate for forty days. Lent is a time of hope and a time of renewal. Lent is a time to draw alongside of God and examine our relationship with him. To do that we have to examine ourselves. We need to undertake a spring clean to remove anything that is clogging up the pathway to God. By doing so we develop the opportunity to deepen our relationship with God.Lent is a time of tension between dying and birth. Through the death of Jesus and His resurrection, in our Lenten journey, through self- examination we are confronted with some harsh and inconvenient truths that are often hidden in plain sight in our lives. We need to strip away the fantasises we create that mask, cover up and hide the dust and ashes of the vulnerable realities of our lives and we need to seek to come close to the God in whom no secrets are hidden. In our daily reality we often turn away from God and make poor choices. We have hurt others and hurt ourselves. We have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. We have erred and strayed from God’s ways like lost sheep.

Is abstinence and fasting your method of observing the Lenten season? Think about adding something to your spiritual journey during Lent? Consider setting aside time for writing a journal each day. This can be a great tool to enhance your prayers and Lent experience. Think about what am I abstaining from and why? What am I adding for Lent and why? What is my experience of Lent? What are the spiritual challenges of Lent? What is my personal experience with God and faith during this Lenten season? Use your journal to write prayers and favourite bible verses or a note of anything of importance. There are no rules to keeping a Lent journal. Each person’s journey through Lent is personal.

Pray

I pray for grace to keep Lent faithfully. To turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ.

Call to mind your flaws and weaknesses and remember the infinite mercy of God. If you can, write them down. Remember there is nothing that God cannot forgive to someone who is truly repentant. To repent simply means to turn. Turn towards God.

Is there a fear you need to face?

Is there a habit you need to break?

Is there something bad and damaging that needs to be removed from your life?

Can you honestly ask God to show you what needs to change in your life?

Lent is a time where we are invited to ask ourselves, ‘Am I living for myself or for God?’

Lent is a time to consider our spiritual health as well as our emotional and physical well-being.

Ask - What do I use in my daily life to distract myself from the deeper realities of being? Is it alcohol, busyness, the internet, overeating? The answer to this question can lead to deeper and more challenging levels of self-knowledge and a greater closeness to God.

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 16, 2020