Comments on: Are You Giving Up Something for Lent? Or Adding Something In? https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/ on Life and Love Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:43:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Deb Nance at Readerbuzz https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329824 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:38:07 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329824 I’m adding something in!

]]> By: Linda Stoll https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329809 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:16:38 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329809 I like this nudge toward adding in, adding to instead of giving up or taking away. It seems to add to the richness of the season and depth of our anticipation, our deep love for Christ.

Maybe more than ever?

Thanks, Lisa. This is thought-provoking. With all that’s been happening in recent days, I needed the recalibration and refocusing you’ve given.

]]> By: Tea With Jennifer https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329807 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:08:19 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329807 Thank you for hosting Lisa.
Bless you,
Jennifer

]]> By: Calvonia Radford https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329805 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:32:20 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329805 I’m participating in a group sugar fast this year. Our purpose is to have clarity of mind and thought wo we can focus more on hearing God clearly. I do not generally observe Lent but I do intentionally focus more on Jesus salvific work on the cross.

]]> By: Theresa Boedeker https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329803 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:08:10 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329803 I first learned about Lent by churches where the focus was on fasting, giving up something. Later I learned about adding something. I love your explination here: “The point of Lent is to focus our minds more on the final days of Jesus’s life, his death, and his resurrection. It’s to reveal our own need for change and ultimate celebration of victory in Christ. It’s to draw us closer to Jesus and his love for us, and in turn to spread more love to others.”

]]> By: Lynn https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329802 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:50:03 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329802 “It’s to reveal our own need for change and ultimate celebration of victory in Christ. ” I love that description of Lent. I haven’t officially done anything for Lent, although I do, like you and your husband, attend or listen to a church service that honours Lent. When I was in elementary school, we would weekly do the “stations of the cross” at our church, and I still look back to that time fondly.

]]> By: Michele Morin https://lisanotes.com/giving-up-for-lent-or-adding/#comment-329796 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:18:11 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=30977#comment-329796 I tend to add things for Advent and for Lent–and I think it’s because I am trying to live my way into the essence of the season.

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