{"id":1585,"date":"2010-02-28T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:08:26","slug":"lenten-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devotions-for-Lent-ebook\/dp\/B0036FOGKQ\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1267391066&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1586\" title=\"51v7169tdcl_ss500_\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/51v7169tdcl_ss500_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/51v7169tdcl_ss500_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/51v7169tdcl_ss500_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/51v7169tdcl_ss500_.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devotions-for-Lent-ebook\/dp\/B0036FOGKQ\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1267391066&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devotions-for-Lent-ebook\/dp\/B0036FOGKQ\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1267391066&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Devotions for Lent<\/a> by Tyndale House Publishers for free on my Kindle. \u00a0So far it has been a great resource as I contemplate Lent. \u00a0Lent is the 40 day journey (not including Sundays) from Ash Wednesday to Easter. \u00a0It is a time of reflection and sacrifice in anticipation of the agony of the crucifixion and the glory of the resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lent is a plodding, definitive crescendo that leads up to the cacophonous noise of Good Friday and the gorgeous aria of Easter. It\u2019s a season marked by deliberateness and intentionality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s difficult to grasp what our sense of entitlement does to our bodies and souls. Our culture worships at the feet of pleasure. As we \u201cshovel it in,\u201d we can become desensitized to our needs\u2014the real hungers in our lives. Observing Lent can help us wrestle with the causes of our perpetual consumption. When we decide to relinquish what fails to truly satisfy, we come face-to-face with some tough questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used this link to download Devotions for Lent by Tyndale House Publishers for free on my Kindle. \u00a0So far it has been a great resource as I contemplate Lent. \u00a0Lent is the 40 day journey (not including Sundays) from Ash Wednesday to Easter. \u00a0It is a time of reflection and sacrifice in anticipation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}