5th week of Lent, Wednesday – God breathed life into the newly created human. He breathed and continues to breathe life into all things. Without God, there is nothing. You are a unique part of it…and have a responsibility to God’s entire creation and to it as community. Could it be that without you, God has nothing?
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]
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -SATURDAY
4th week of Lent, Saturday – Look at your surroundings. Think how what you see – naturally existing or otherwise – has needed warmth or heat to come into existence. This element has been the catalyst for change. What has been the fire in your life? What moments in your life defined you? Without considering this as good or bad, thank God for this change and submit to this as part of who you are now…. Let your mind settle and relax.
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -FRIDAY
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -THURSDAY
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -WEDNESDAY
4th week of Lent, Wednesday – ‘Set to Fire to the Rain’, writes singer Adele. Like an Australian bushfire which is required to germinate some types of seeds, so too is fire needed in our lives. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but that doesn’t keep it away. I pray that God gives me the courage to live my life and you the courage to live yours. And might we help each other.
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -TUESDAY
4th week of Lent, Tuesday –Burn some of last weeks’ grass in your candle…carefully. Watch the change. A fire destroys, while some say purifies. Both ways, for a human in this process, pain is involved. Much pain enters our lives, as a matter of course. Pain must be left to be pain. However, we don’t cling to or wallow in our pain. First we enter in, live in the pain, and breathe from inside the pain. Then we ultimately let go of pain. All creatures suffer – not only human ones. That means we can all contribute to bearing one another’s burdens. Who helps bear your burdens? Whose burdens do you bear?
FOURTH WEEK OF LENT -MONDAY
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]