Practice Listening For God
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This devotion is taken from our 2025 Lent in a Box resource, Unbroken: A Living Faith created in partnership with The Lutheran Center at St. Olaf and grounded in the work of the Living Catechism Project. Each week's theme is based around one of the teachings of the Living Catechism. View the weekly videos and download the daily spiritual practices and reflections on this website.
Week 2 Theme: God becomes human for us in Jesus Christ
The God who creates all that is takes on life and death in the person of Jesus. A God who becomes flesh understands our loves and limits, bridging the gap between God and creation through God’s radical act of love for creation in Christ’s living, dying, and living again. God’s costly love for creation compels us to embrace Christ’s compassion and care for all of life.
Read: John 1:1-5
Day 2: Practice listening for God in the collective stories from groups of people and throughout your community.
Lent offers us space to lean in and listen with more intentionality and care. Find a place where you can sit comfortably with minimal clutter and distractions. Ask God to speak to you.
God is good and everything God created is good. Take some time to connect with the stories of those you are in community with. This can be through an in-person conversation, text, phone call, Facetime or Zoom, etc.
What goodness can you affirm in their body? Say a prayer of gratitude for this goodness.
What goodness can you affirm in the bodies of those they are connected with? Say a prayer of gratitude for this goodness.
What goodness can you affirm in the bodies of those they may be distanced from? Say a prayer of gratitude for this goodness.
Reflect and journal about your responses.
Explore creative ways to share some of this Good News with someone throughout the week.
