2nd week of Lent, Monday – Close your eyes and breathe slowly, in and out. Put your hands on your abdomen to feel your breath rise and fall. Think about the miraculous way you are alive now. Think about the waves of the ocean rolling in and out, as if showing the breath of the planet. Consider the renewal of your body through the intake of water. Continue breathing in a relaxed way.
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5 minute Lenten Devotions -SECOND WEEK
By Flossie Peitsch
Water Theme
LENTEN OVERVIEW: There are 40 days in Lent. (Sundays in this period are not counted as Lent.)
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. This week, have a glass of water beside the 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
This week you will need to bring a glass of water each day.
[Light the candle]
Say Out-loud
This is the day or the Lord. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
[Daily Focus]
Say Out-loud
Holy God, I give you permission to say what you want to, to me this day, to say what you want to through me today and to do want you want to with me this day.
[Drink the water. Extinguish the candle]
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -SATURDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -FRIDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -THURSDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -WEDNESDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -TUESDAY
FIRST WEEK OF LENT -MONDAY
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Saturday after Ash Wednesday – With eyes closed, use your hands to hold your face. Run your hands over your features. This is the face given to you by generations of those who went before you. They live in this world because of you and your face. It is a God given face. This face bravely turns to the world in hope for good in the future. With eyes still closed, smile and feel this smile. Think of drawing the smile inside – to smile at yourself. YOU are worth your lovely face and its smile.
THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Thursday after Ash Wednesday – With eyes closed, hold your own hands. Lightly draw each hand over the other, gently massaging every part. The stop and just hold your hand, feeling its warmth and life. Notice that you are a live gift to yourself. These are the hands your parents cuddled so admiringly. These are the hands that touch the ones you love, touch your future. Stay holding your hands for this session.
ASH WEDNESDAY
ASH WEDNESDAY – Use the well burnt match to make the sign of a cross on the back of your hand. Say ‘Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.’ These words are used at funerals to remind us that we are all part of the earth and will return to the earth in time. Close your eyes and breathe slowly, in and out. Think about the miraculous way you are alive now, able to realize the renewal of your blood oxygen with each breath. Continue noticing your breathing for this session.
My book is now available on Amazon.com
Just a short note to share with you the LATEST incarnation of the work done for my Ph.D ‘The Immortal Now’ has just been published in a paperback edition.
You can find it at this link and thanks go to my German publisher who is offering free shipping to the USA with the book.
The book has a deep look at how we define our identity within everything around us, it considers questions such as ‘how do we chose our spirituality?’ and ‘What are the boundaries of our home?’. Particularly when one person finds themselves displaced and without a ‘traditional’ home, ‘where does one look for Identity in this existence?’
Increasingly these seem like questions for our current migrant society. As we travel even faster amongst continents and cultures we find more people displaced and experiencing a ‘loss of identity’.