Lent is something you have probably heard people talk about, but a lot of us don’t really know what it is.

Don’t worry, that doesn’t make you a bad person.  (read the wikipedia for a ton of info about it.)

The short version is this:

Lent is a season in which we practice giving up something important in order to refocus our lives on God.  By fasting from certain things, we practice dying to ourselves.  And by refocusing our lives, living to God, we intentionally choose things that help us become the kind of people God desires us to be.

We found a calendar and distributed it to the people at The Gateway Church, but would encourage anyone to journey along with us this year during Lent.  It is a bit different than what you most often hear people talking about, like fasting from something specific for 40 days.

This calendar suggests daily practices for fasting-from and living-to during the 40 days of the Lenten season.

Here is the link to where you can see the calendar, or of course save it and print it out.

~chris