Category Archives: Lent

Morning Prayer: Awe and Gratitude

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Good morning, Lord. I thank You for this Lenten season, when we remember Your sacrifice on the cross. It’s so easy, in the busyness of my daily routine, to forget the biggest event in human history. Engrave the truth of … Continue reading →

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Fasting and Fruit

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Are you fasting from anything during Lent? Joel 2:12 (NIV) “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” “As our bodies grow weaker for lack of food during the season … Continue reading →

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Hungry for Bread

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Jesus, the living Word, fasted for 40 days. Luke 4:1-4 (ESV) And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he … Continue reading →

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Divine Intervention … at the Right Time

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Romans 5:6 (NLT) When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Divine intervention, at just the right time. It the reason for the Lenten season.

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Morning Prayer: The Cross

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Good morning, Lord. In our churches, with their polished and lighted crosses, it’s easy to forget the ugliness of Your cross. Forgive me for my lopsided focus: seeing Your love and forgetting Your holiness, seeing the empty tomb and forgetting … Continue reading →

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Lenten Bliss

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

“What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul.” Christian folk hymn, 1800s Bliss — perfect happiness, complete joy. Jesus, the “Lord of bliss,” went through the … Continue reading →

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Lenten Beauty

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

“In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous beauty I see, for ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, to pardon and sanctify me.” George Bennard, 1913 The horrible, beautiful cross of Christ … … Continue reading →

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Lenten Vision

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; be all else but naught to me, save that Thou art; be Thou my best thought in the day and the night, both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light. Irish … Continue reading →

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Lenten Love

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

“Was it for crimes that I have done, he groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!” Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed Isaac Watts, 1702 John 15:13 (NLT) There is no greater love than to … Continue reading →

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Lenten Music

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Shirlee Abbott

From childhood to the present, I’ve heard and sung old hymns over and over. The first few notes or words can bring the whole hymn to mind. This week I’ll be highlighting the music of Lent–that is, some of the … Continue reading →

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