Category Archives: Reflecting

FIFTH WEEK OF LENT -TUESDAY

5th week of Lent, Tuesday – Loosely roll a magazine into a tube and peer into the great beyond, out a window or walk outside. Look at the cosmos through this limiting lens.  Notice the colour of the sky – day or night. Consider this direct line to the vastness of the universe….the known and the unknown. Now think of the vastness of the Creator of this vastness and mystery. Christ sustains the universe by his powerful command. Hebrews 1:3

FIFTH WEEK OF LENT -MONDAY

5th week of Lent, Monday – Close your eyes and breathe slowly, in and out. Today, do not take in the next breath until you do not have a choice and your body forces you to inhale. Consider how good it feels to take air in. your body wants to live. Even unconsciously it seeks to live in every way. So, join your body and live life. Be part of each day, bringing hope to it – like the sweet anticipation of the next breath your body craves. Don’t pass the time until your personal situation to improves. You may not have that long to wait! Think about the miraculous way you are alive now.

5 minute Lenten Devotions -FIFTH WEEK

Week 5 – 5 minute Lenten Mini-Devos 2012

By Flossie Peitsch

Air Theme

LENTEN OVERVIEW: There are 40 days in Lent. (Sundays in this period are not counted as Lent.) It is traditional to give up something for Lent but it can also follow four (4) disciplines:

Repentance – self-examination

Prayer – Pray about life issues, including listening to God’s word

Fasting – Limiting or eliminating something you enjoy, as you feel you

are led to do

Service – Giving up personal time for others’ benefit

PREPARE: Pick a time when you will not be interrupted. Have beside you your Bible and light a candle. The purpose of the Devos is to momentarily simplify your spirituality by focusing on one thought or action. It is meant to be a step towards a new awareness using some of our God-given senses and attributes.

General Daily Outline

[Light the candle]

Say Out-loud

It is in God that we live, and move and have our being. Acts 17:28

[Daily Focus]

Say Out-loud

May the blessing of the Holy One who gives us life, the blessing of the Human One who heals our lives, the blessing of the Spirit who enriches our lives, be with us all during this sacred time.

[Extinguish the candle]

5 minute Lenten Devotions -FOURTH WEEK

By Flossie Peitsch

Fire Theme

LENTEN OVERVIEW: There are 40 days in Lent. (Sundays in this period are not counted as Lent.) It is traditional to give up something for Lent but it can also follow four (4) disciplines:

Repentance – self-examination
Prayer – Pray about life issues, including listening to God’s word
Fasting – Limiting or eliminating something you enjoy, as you feel you
are led to do
Service – Giving up personal time for others’ benefit

PREPARE: Pick a time when you will not be interrupted. Have beside you your Bible and light a candle. The purpose of the Devos is to momentarily simplify your spirituality by focusing on one thought or action. It is meant to be a step towards a new awareness using some of our God-given senses and attributes.

General Daily Outline

[Light the candle]

Say Out-loud
Now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.

[Daily Focus]

Say Out-loud
Almighty and merciful God, you love us and make all things new in Christ. Purify the poverty of our nature by the riches of your kindness. Make known your heavenly glory in the renewal of my life, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.

[Extinguish the candle]

THIRD WEEK OF LENT -FRIDAY

3rd week of Lent, Friday –The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. Genius 2:7 Think of your favourite person, living or dead. Picture them hugging you. Add as many people as you can think of who you would like to surround you with hugs right now. Then add the people who have supported these people with love too. Your place is in the centre of this ‘divinely given’ hug. You are not alone. This is love at work – outside of time, outside of space. Forever yours because you have been formed from the earth by God himself.

THIRD WEEK OF LENT -THURSDAY

3rd week of Lent, Thursday – Put your hand on your Bible. Through the text in its earthy, tangible format and its everyday events, God is becoming known to you. This understanding of God has been passed down to you through the ages. As much as it reveals…much, much more is unknown about God. This is the divine mystery of which you are a part. Consider the known compared to the vastness of the unknown.

THIRD WEEK OF LENT -WEDNESDAY

3rd week of Lent, Wednesday –Look at the grass you placed by your candle the other day. It likely looks shriveled and drying or moldy. Without God’s blessing in his continuous creation of life and the circumstances for life, there would not be life. Your action in removing this grass from its roots changed the grass’s existence from living to dying. A natural enough process perhaps, but effected by you. What else does humanity affect in our time, with our acceptance? Which of those many things within your view yesterday would you give up for the life and health of the planet? For God’s sake?

THIRD WEEK OF LENT -TUESDAY

3rd week of Lent, Tuesday – Look at and touch ‘natural things’ you can reach from where you sit. Do you see any? Look at and touch the ‘man-made’ things you reach from where you sit. Do you see any? Everything we have is a combination of ‘naturally occurring elements’ or  these same elements transformed or harvested through the effort of humanity. All come to us as God’s blessing in His creativity of the world, the cosmos and human form. Stop to consider and admire this handiwork.

5 minute Lenten Devotions -THIRD WEEK

by Flossie Peitsch

Earth Theme

LENTEN OVERVIEW: There are 40 days in Lent. (Sundays in this period are not counted as Lent.) It is traditional to give up something for Lent but it can also follow four (4) disciplines:

Repentance – self-examination

Prayer – Pray about life issues, including listening to God’s word

Fasting – Limiting or eliminating something you enjoy, as you feel you

are led to do

Service – Giving up personal time for others’ benefit

PREPARE: Pick a time when you will not be interrupted. Have beside you your Bible and light a candle. The purpose of the Devos is to momentarily simplify your spirituality by focusing on one thought or action. It is meant to be a step towards a new awareness using some of our God-given senses and attributes.

General Daily Outline

[Light the candle]

Tear off some lawn grass and set it by your candle for this week.

Say Out-loud

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of. Halleluiah.

[Daily Focus]

Say Out-loud

May God the Father who created creativity; God the Son who lived creatively; and God the Holy Spirit who carries creativity to all corners of the earth, at all times, be and abide with us all.

[Extinguish the candle]