In answer to my prayers about how to best observe Lent as a family this year, I was given a few ideas after talking and brainstorming with my kids!
- First, Sunday, we were given a booklet about Christians in difficult
situations around the world and prayers we can pray for them. So, one
thing we plan to do is to daily read a page from the booklet and pray for
that group of Christians.
- Second, Alexis suggested we stand to read the Bible at night instead
of comfortably sitting on the couch while we read.
- Third, another kid (I think Edmund), suggested we look for an attribute of God from that day’s Bible passage (which we already usually do). However, that led me to think about a way we could further focus on Jesus’s attributes. So, last night I put together a chart of 40 attributes. Each day we will focus on a different attribute of Jesus. As a challenge, we will need to find and read a verse in the New Testament that talks about that attribute, whether directly or indirectly. On Sundays, we will pick a verse from the previous week and memorize it.
Since Lent started yesterday and I put the chart together late last night, I gave everyone a Scripture for the first attribute and asked them to start today to find their own verse.
Yesterday’s
attribute – Living
Scripture – Revelation 1:18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
By Easter Sunday, we will have meditated on 40 different attributes of Jesus and memorized 6 of the related verses. Feel free to join in the challenge!
How else are you and
I planning to observe Lent?
Jesus is worthy of
our focus this Lenten season!!!
