A Lenten Calendar
for the Pandemic Year
2021
2/17: Bible Study…acquire ashes, if you are able….
2/18: Call to check in on a friend or neighbor
2/19: Sing The Lord’s Prayer…. At full volume!
2/20: Dance…leap….or just tap your toes to a catchy tune
2/21: Take Communion, if you can…or, have an extra cuppa and be thankful
2/22: Be silent for 5 minutes….or as long as you can stand it
2/23: Write a friendly note to a friend…
2/24: Read your favorite Psalm… or try the 23rd or the 135th
2/25: Pray for Peace and health
2/26: Hug your dog or cat or gerbil….whatever!
2/27: Smile with your eyes at strangers
2/28: Go to church on Zoom…..or in person
3/1: Give time/money to a good cause
3/2: Turn off the television and call someone
3/3: Thank God for a specific blessing…
3/4: Make someone you love laugh
3/5: Contemplate the beauty of a tree…or a house plant
3/6: Sing along with a favorite song on Youtube or the radio….
3/7: Go to church and sit in a new location, or enter Zoom with an alias…
3/8: Just listen to others, to the sounds of your house, to the woods, a stream.. 3/9: Send a card or note to a house-bound friend or neighbor…
3/10: Read 1 chapter in the Gospel of John…
3/11: Talk to God…Pray for a specific person
3/12: Try to spot a green sprout in a sunny spot….or a robin…
3/13: Make a list of twenty-five things you are most thankful for…at least 5 or 10
3/14: Take someone to church…or invite them to join Zoom
3/15: Perform a random act of kindness, and do it anonymously if possible…
3/16: Pay for the person behind you in any drive-through line
3/17: Have corned beef and cabbage and/or wear green
3/18: Let go of a grudge…and/ or be openly joyful
3/19: Go outside and holler/sing “Hallelujah!”
3/20: Sing the Doxology…with unusual gusto!!
3/21: At church, on Zoom, or anywhere…Thank God…for the renewal of Spring
3/22: Contemplate what Jesus might’ve been thinking/doing in the week that
leads us up to Palm Sunday
3/23: Pray for those who are depressed, lost and lonely souls…
3/24: Be merciful…. and forgive those who are not…forgive yourself
3/25: Look for a few green shoots…. Even if they are under the snow…
3/26: Read Mark 12-14….and/or make soup and share with a neighbor
3/27: Find your Easter basket, clean it and put in fresh “grass”
3/28 Wave your palm branches (or something!!) and sing a few Hosannas!
3/29: Invite a friend or a neighbor to church for Easter Sunday…..
3/30: Color some Easter eggs
3/31: Thank God and Jesus for the priceless gift of your Salvation…
4/1: Create your own Last Supper…pray for the Judases of this world
4/2: Go to church in person or on Zoom, but observe Good Friday somehow
4/3: Dust off/fluff up your Easter Bonnet…
And…
4/4: Go to church in whatever way you can….later, sing “The Hallelujah
Chorus” (bring it up on Youtube) whether you should sing it or not!