The season of Lent begins this year on 
Ash Wednesday, March 9.
Ash Wednesday, March 9.
Lent is not all about giving things up. It's also about adding good things to our lives or to others' lives -- the kind of good things that follow on what Jesus asks of us. Try these:
· Reconcile yourself to someone you don't like.
· Do acts of kindness for people, just because.
· Take the time to be in a refreshing, natural spot.
· Study about what causes poverty.
· Meditate, and pray over one or two Scripture passages each day.
· Choose something ordinary that you do every day, and think about God while doing it.
· Check out your ethnic heritage, and learn how Christians in it mark the season.
· Attend special worship services.
· Find a new way every day to remember Jesus' death on the cross, and why it happened.
-- Submitted by Pat Gibbons, from the Mission Focus Team
(Adapted from http://www.spirithome.com/lent.html#adding)
