Spiritual Practice | The Season of Lent 2026
Throughout Lent, you are invited into a set of simple spiritual practices—ways of paying attention to your life and to God’s presence within it.
These practices are not homework.
They are not requirements.
They are invitations.
Each practice connects to a weekly Gospel story and can be explored in daily life and during worship. You are encouraged to try one practice, return to the same one each week, or simply carry the spirit of them with you. There is no right way to do this.
God is not keeping score.
Lent is not about getting it right—it is about making space.
Spiritual Practices for Lent
Remembering Who We Are Beneath Survival
Once a day, pause and gently notice:
One way you protected yourself today
One way you felt truly alive
No judgment. Just noticing.
Prayer: Beloved God, help me remember who I am, even here. Amen
Learning Which Voices to Trust
Light a candle as Nicodemus comes by night.
Hold your question—not to solve it, but to notice it.
Ask quietly; What is stirring in me right now?
Let the flame do what it does.
Let the Spirit move how it will.
Prayer: Spirit of God, teach me how to listen. Amen
Naming Our Thirst
Hold a stone. Feel its weight.
What are you thirsty for? What have you been carrying instead?
Drop the stone into the water. Receive the sound. Receive the ripples.
Say quietly: I don’t have to earn this.
Prayer: Christ, meet me where I am thirsty. Amen
Learning to See Clearly
This is what it’s like to be me right now.
Write one honest sentence; This is what it’s like to be me right now.
Or you may mark the page with charcoal—
lines, shadows, smudges— truth without explanation.
No editing.
No fixing.
Prayer: God of light, help me live in what is true.
Letting Go Without Disappearing
Gently release one thing that no longer gives life.
Write what you are ready to loosen: an expectation, a grief, a resentment, a role you’ve outgrown.
This is not shame.
This is breath-making.
Place the paper in the bowl. These words will be burned later— not erased, but entrusted.
Prayer: God who calls me by name, help me release what no longer gives life.
Staying When Love Is Costly
Pause for three slow breaths.
When discomfort arises— grief, silence, sorrow, love—
stay for three slow breaths.
No fixing.
No fleeing.
Just presence.
Prayer: Holy One, help me stay.