Lent 2010

Just a friendly reminder that Lent is beginning next week on Wednesday and will continue for forty days until the third of April. The Tuesday before is called Shrove Tuesday and it is traditional to eat pancakes on that day. I will be celebrating in that style at Liberty Market in downtown Gilbert with many other various folks for breakfast (it's actually an official tweetup #evfat/#evtm if you are into that).

I encourage you to consider participating in observing Lent this year either by fasting from something you enjoy/or by adding in a discipline. This time is supposed to prepare your heart/mind/life in a period of waiting and mourning before the Easter season when we celebrate resurrection.

Maybe this is a topic to explore with your family and friends as well in the next week. Feel free to share how you would considering observing on this post, and I also look forward to discussing it next week when we all meet.

easter tree

Check out this creative idea by Magpie Girl about how she celebrates Easter in her home with her children in particular.

It may be a little late for some of us to do something like this, but I thought it was a great idea. Perhaps you could start this Easter and have decorations for next year?

Easter Gathering

Adam and I are really excited to have everyone over to our place next week for our Easter gathering!

We'll be having breakfast together outside, so please leave a comment on this post with what you plan to bring. Please don't stress about this too much-- it's fine if we have some duplicates-- I am just trying to avoid us having ten plates of the same thing. :-) And if you can't bring anything, don't worry. Please join us!

We will plan on providing the coffee and juice and whatever else I decide to make based on what everyone else is bringing.

Also, please feel free to comment with any ideas that you may have for our gathering, whether that be a reading, activity, song, etc. Since we will all be together, perhaps we can come up with a way to incorporate our wonderful kiddos? Our loose plan for the morning looks something like this: Everyone arrives, the kids can run around outside while the adults reflect on Lent, share some readings, music, etc. Then we can do [insert something creative here] with the kids and then eat together. Plans subject to change if better ideas come along. :-)

Lastly, there was talk of an egg hunt for the little ones. If that's something that we want to do, my suggestion is that parents of participating kids bring some eggs to contribute...?

I think those are all of the logistical items-- whew! Again, we are very much open to your ideas so please share away. Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday.

* Photo courtesy of VirgoMerry on flickr.