Lent Guide | Week 6
Theme: Remembrance
We cannot change the past, but the past can lead us to change. We can find inflection points of joy in our present by learning from the past. Where have you noticed faithfulness, joy, return? Where have you encountered compassion? Set your mind upon the good, the true, the beautiful. Call to mind hope. Remember.
How to use this guide?
Each week offers a guiding theme for prayer for you to put into practice through daily movements of prayer and reflection (presence, formation, renewal, gratitude).
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May my attention lead to adoration. May I adore the true, the good, the beautiful? May I see your face?
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Teach me to slow, to be still, and enjoy the pleasures created for me. Teach me to notice the beauty surrounding me: the still water, the emerging buds, life breaking forth. I want to remember that all these things come from you.
(As you attend to each day’s scripture, consider God’s present gifts in your life.)
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Do it again in our time Lord. Let us not miss this moment to participate with your generative love.
(Consider journaling about where you’re most hopeful for renewal.)
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Recall the gift - consider the sounds, sights, smells all around you at this moment. Savor them and give thanks for God’s great gifts.
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 - Psalm 126
Where have your tears turned to joy? Have they yet? Perhaps they’ve yet to spill. What if God’s desires to restore you in your heartache? Take a moment to welcome God into the hurt to bring restoration.
Monday, April 4th, 2022 - Luke 17:11-19
Our memory can be faulty. We remember selectively, only giving attention to the things in our field of view. Lord, may we see with compassion as you see. May we recall your out-of-bounds goodness?
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 - Luke 18:9-14
To all the perfectionists, rule followers, with our i’s dotted and t’s crossed where is the mercy? Who is it for? Lord help us humble ourselves before your mercy. May we set aside our straight lines for your narrow way. Lord, have mercy.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 - Luke 19:1-10
Imagine you are Zacchaeus and Jesus imposes his hospitality on you. Who talks first? What would you want to say to Jesus? What would it be like, to meet him?
Thursday, April 7th, 2022 - Luke 20:9-19
As we near the end of Lent Jesus’ tone yields a tense moment or two? Who, to your mind, would be the tenant farmers now? What is Jesus’ tone now?
Friday, April 8th, 2022 - Luke 21:7-19
How do we pray our way into this passage? Notice Jesus’ call to confidence amid some pretty dark scenes (can you relate?). This, oddly enough, is where we pray.
Saturday, April 9th, 2022 - Luke 22:1–23:49
Jesus, may this story so saturate my imagination that I see how you indeed are in the right?