Friday, February 24, 2006
Count your blessings
(Category: life, faith)
The second recommendation is slightly different, and comes from Christian Aid: a thought-provoking and fund-raising way to reflect the many blessings we take for granted in the United Kingdom.
For each of the 40 days of Lent there is thought starter and a financial or prayer challenge. For instance:
It may get you thinking, and might cost you quite a lot, and not just in money, but in the realisation of how lucky we really are. You can download a PDF.
I shall do it - and expect you to hold me accountable and ask how much I have raised in doing it.
Join me. Recruit your youth group and your Mothers' Union, your young, your old and all those inbetween. A lot of individuals, all doing their part, can go a long, long way.
(I might, if I can get my act together, post the challenges each day!) ¶ 4:22 pm
The second recommendation is slightly different, and comes from Christian Aid: a thought-provoking and fund-raising way to reflect the many blessings we take for granted in the United Kingdom.
For each of the 40 days of Lent there is thought starter and a financial or prayer challenge. For instance:
Wednesday 1 March, Ash Wednesday
Millions of children in India are forced into work instead of going to school, so may never learn to read.
Give 15p for every newspaper, magazine or book you've read in the past week.
It may get you thinking, and might cost you quite a lot, and not just in money, but in the realisation of how lucky we really are. You can download a PDF.
I shall do it - and expect you to hold me accountable and ask how much I have raised in doing it.
Join me. Recruit your youth group and your Mothers' Union, your young, your old and all those inbetween. A lot of individuals, all doing their part, can go a long, long way.
(I might, if I can get my act together, post the challenges each day!) ¶ 4:22 pm
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Sounds potentially helpful...and scary...and assorted other appropriate Lenten things. I'm too vague and wooly, even by my standards, to risk positively committing to it here and now, but I might well join you. Probably. I think.
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