There are a few quick and easy online devotionals I look at from time to time, upper room is one of them. Today’s devotional was about what one reader gave up for a past Lent. I appreciate this idea rather than giving up chocolate, pop, or coffee. Not to get caught up in an act, but I would like to encourage others to take this Lent season to focus on the life of Jesus and prepare our hearts for Easter. Perhaps that would be in choosing to give something up or add something like spending more time in the Word. Another site, Our Daily Bread, has some email devotionals for the Lent season.

Here is the Upper Room Devotional which can be found at, http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2012-02-19
A Sacrifice of Silence
Read James 3:2-12

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.
— Matthew 15:11 (NRSV)

As the Lenten season approached, I wondered what I ought to give up for 40 days. I once did without chocolate. Another year I fasted from[...]

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