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Life Transformed– The Way of Love in Lent
February 14, 2024 – Lent 1 (B) - Ash Wednesday
Pray Take 20 minutes in contemplative prayer today. Matt. 4:18-22
Thursday, February 15
Turn Today, intentionally listen devoutly to another person. Mk. 4:23
Friday, February 16
Go Where can you go and intentionally provide kindness" Matt. 5:4
Saturday, February 17
Worship How does community help or hinder your growing in Christ? Jn. 1:12-13
February 18, 2024 – Lent 1 (B)
Week 1: LINK to PRINTED GUIDE
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life. Together, we will reflect anew on the loving actions of God as recounted in the Easter Vigil readings. Together, we will walk through the depths of salvation history into the fullness of redemption. Throughout Lent, come along with us as we explore Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent, produced by Hillary Raining and Jenifer Gamber. You can find resources mentioned below at iam.ec/lifetransformed.
Week 1
Sunday, February 18
Today’s Practice: Watch the Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining’s video at
iam.ec/lifetransformed for Week 1. The topic is based on the practice “Turn” and is titled, “Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ”. Read: Romans 6:3-11
Monday, February 19
Today’s Prompt: Bless: Who has taught you to live a Jesus-filled life? Who have you taught?
Read: “So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.” – 2 Corinthians 4:16
Tuesday, February 20
Today’s Prompt: Rest: How do you incorporate rest into your life?
Read: “Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”” – Jeremiah 6:16
Wednesday, February 21
Today’s Prompt: Pray: Go for a walk today and pray with your feet, each step with intention.
Read: “Many peoples shall come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’” – Isaiah 2:3a
Thursday, February 22
Today’s Prompt: Rule of Life: How do others experience the love of Christ you bring?
Read: “By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.” – Galatians 5:22-23
Friday, February 23
Today’s Prompt: Go: Where are you being encouraged to “show up”?
Read: “Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’” – Matthew 25:44-45
Saturday, February 24
Today’s Prompt: Worship: What is most meaningful to you in worship?
Read: Book of Common Prayer, p. 281
Reflections from “Living the Way of Love” by Mary Bea Sullivan (Church Publishing, 2019). Used with permission. Quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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