Thankful journal

Well, there is no official Lent salutation.  I googled it.

Oh and the ashes for Ash Wednesday... I found out they are the ashes from burnt palms from Palm Sunday.  Just fyi.



Another part of my Lent observance will be my Thankful journal.  I have one and I once wrote in it faithfully.  Some how it got closed, then moved from my desk, then  buried under a stack.  That can happen to thankfulness.  It so easily gets forgotten, buried under the load of the everyday.

So, I dug out that journal and I'm going to start digging thankfulness out of my heart. (Did you know if you write down 3 things that you are thankful for each day of the year you will have over 1000 entries.  1000 gifts...does that sound familiar?) If we write down three thanksgivings each of the 40 days of Lent, we will have 120 entries.  I think that is a good start.

I have a friend, Lisa, who posts on facebook, "Practicing Gratitude."  I like this term.  It does take practice to be grateful.  It takes no practice to complain.

This is the web address of someone who lives her life looking for those Easter EGGs.  If you haven't met Ann Voskamp via her books(One Thousand Gifts), journals, or website, I encourage you to do so.  I think she will encourage you, too.

http://www.aholyexperience.com/

When the kids were little we had what we called Easter E.G.G. hunts.  EGG stands for Evidence of God's Grace.  Grab a fresh journal, an old notebook, a spiral binder form the kid's school supplies or, like me, a once active thankful journal that was dug up like a buried treasure, and let's go on an Easter EGG hunt together all thru the season of Lent.