Lent is a forty-day season to slow down and prepare for Easter — not through guilt or self-punishment, but through attention. This year, we’re entering Lent through a simple image: a cup.
Inspired by The Cup of Our Life by Joyce Rupp, we’ll reflect on how transformation happens in ordinary, everyday moments. A cup is simple. It gets filled and emptied. It gets chipped and washed. And still — it holds what we need.
Some of us come to Lent feeling full.
Some empty.
Some cracked.
Most of us — a mix of it all.
This season, we’ll pay attention to our cups.
Our Focus: Practice
This Lent is about steady spiritual practice — small, daily invitations to pray, reflect, and pay attention in the “common crevices” of life. Nothing dramatic. Just faithful beginning again.
Giving as Practice
Consider setting aside $1 per day during Lent — forty days, forty dollars — as a simple act of generosity. You can dedicate it to our Sacred Steps Giving Program, helping sustain the everyday, holy work of hospitality, justice, recovery, and chosen family.
Lent isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about tending the life you already carry. Let’s walk these forty days together — gently and honestly.
You are a love song, beauty set to music. You are a love song, I have chosen you. – Theresa Hucul.
Breathpraver:
- Breathing in: i am.
- Breathing out: … a love song
Reflection: Hold the cup in your hands. Notice its style, shape, color, size. Be conscious of yourself as a cup held in God’s hands. Accept your uniqueness and your goodness. Thank God for creating you as you are.
Scriptures
- Mon: Isaiah 43:1-7
- Tue: John 15:1-11 or 1 Corinthians 3:1-17
- Wed: 2 Corinthians 4:5-12
- Thu: Matthew 14:22-27
- Fri: Luke 12:22-31
- Sat: Psalm 63
Journaling:
- When I think about God loving me unconditionally as I am, . . .
- As I pray through these six weeks of spiritual guidance, I most desire..
- Dear God . .. (write a letter, a song, a psalm, a poem . . . to God)
Prayer:
I turn to you, Divine Creator, and I thank you for the person I am. I am a cup of life.
I have love and goodness within me. Help me to hear your music in my soul today and to smile in gratitude when I think of my own uniqueness. Let me not doubt my value or question my worth. Help me to know and to accept who I am. I am yours. May I bring life to my world.
Today: I will try to be a love song for others. this day.
The Open Cup
Scripture: Matthew 6:19-21
Check back for practices for the week!
The Chipped Cup
Scripture: Psalm 31
Check back for practices for the week!
The Broken Cup
Scripture: Psalm 31
Check back for daily practices!
The Cup of Compassion
Scripture: Matthew 10:40-42
Check back for daily practices!
The Blessing Cup
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:8-12
Check back for daily practices!
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