And the winner is commenter #4 Diana Mack! Congrats! I’ll be sending you an e-mail to get your address and, hopefully, we can get this to you pretty soon!
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Lent is quickly approaching and strange as it seems with each year that passes I find that I am more endeared to the season of Lent.
There’s something about stopping in the middle of the crazy of life and reflecting on the gravity…the heaviness…of our sin and looking up to see the hope of Christ that brings me a sense security and peace.
It’s only been a few years that I’ve personally observed Lent, but I find that it was changed how I look at sin and made Good Friday and Easter more than just a passing holiday. It’s made me dig down deep.
There’s a beauty in surrender that captures me and that I love.
And isn’t that what Lent really is? Surrendering of yourself, your ways, your rightness…it’s succumbing to the holiness and love of a Great God and King to find yourself completely and utterly safe…secure.
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Contemplating the Cross is a book that has blessed me many times as I’ve journeyed through Lent. It’s a journey through the 40 days of Lent,
“that can make the central event of human history take root within your soul.
Prepare to be profoundly changed as you walk with Christ through His final hours–
[...] With daily exercises designed to lead you into a new depth of understanding, Rhodes helps you experience for yourself the Passion narratives—the sights, sounds, smells, and emotional weight of the events that took place 2,000 years ago.”
We’ve had an extra copy laying around our house for awhile, so I thought I’d pass it along to one of you.
Giveaway
Leave a comment sharing what you enjoy most about this time of year. (Or anything really.)
Since Lent starts this Wednesday (March 9th!) I’d like to mail this off by Monday. So, the giveaway will end Sunday at midnight.
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It’s only the second month and I almost forget about this already! Oh, well…life goes on.
{And can I just say…I’m typing in the quiet in the middle of the day without a baby on my lap. Both boys are sleeping! I didn’t think it would happen this soon. Moving on before someone wakes up…}
What’s the Reading Room?
It’s a new place where on the last Friday of each month we get together to share what we’ve been reading (books, blogs, articles, poems, stories, newspapers…whatever) and how they’ve moved us and provoked us to think. Or how they made us laugh hysterically.
Reading doesn’t have to be serious to be worthy to share.
You can share in a new blog post or one from the last month, just slip it in the linky below.
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I’ve been a bit sporadic in my reading, picking up things here and there. But there was one book I read this month that, surprisingly, caught me off guard.
I downloaded The Centurion’s Wife by Janette Oke and on my phone for late night nursing reading. Honestly, I thought it would be a ‘fluff‘ book and just something to keep me awake so I didn’t fall asleep in two seconds.
It follows the servant girl (Leah) of Pilate’s wife in the days after Jesus’ crucification and resurrection up until Pentecost. There were other facets of the story, but what captured my attention most was when Leah met with the women who followed Jesus (the various Mary’s and Martha) was how changed these women were.
They had known Jesus. They had been healed him, admonished, taught, and loved on by him. They knew Jesus.
They were passionately confident and hopeful even in the uncertainty that lay before them. As I read, I could see their faces radiate with a calm glory that only could come from someone who met Jesus face to face.
I want that. I want to be as sure of Jesus as they were in those moments. I want the confidence of knowing Jesus face to face…of seeing him look into my eyes and say, “Jessica, Jessica…you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary” (Lk. 10:41-42).
I want that fire. It hangs on my mind.
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It’s your turn.
The Reading Room:
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