To observe Lent this year, we have set up a Lenten tree (that will turn into an Easter tree on Easter morning....shhhh-don't tell the boys!). Hanging on the tree are 45 Bible verses, one for each day from today to Good Friday. Each day we will take down the verse for that day and read it. Then we might pray the verse, read it in context, or just talk about it...I'll try to update about how that is going at some point. As Easter approaches, the tree will grow more and more bare and will be empty on Holy Saturday as we remember our Lord in the tomb. Now keep this as a secret...Easter morning before the kids wake up I plan to fill the tree with egg ornaments and hopefully stems of blooming forsythia from our yard. Oh, I look forward to Easter! But for now we must travel through Lent...
Here is our Lenten tree:
In the picture, there is a jar of beans and what we are calling our Lenten offering vase. For each kind or thoughtful thing we observe the boys doing, we are placing a bean in the offering vase.
Click here for the list of Bible verses I'm using for the Lenten tree.
May your Lenten observation be blessed. Create in us a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within us...
Until next time....
1 comment:
Love your tree!! We actually have a bean themed Lenten activity too! Hope Hudson is all better.
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