Practice Listening For Grace in Your Body
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 4 Theme: God compels creation towards mercy
God’s merciful nature is preoccupied with graciousness rather than punishment or who deserves love and care and who doesn’t. That we are created in the image of a merciful God means we are called to embody unconditional grace and love to other people and all living things, participating in the coming of God’s reign where all are supported, nourished, and loved.
Read Luke 15:11-32
Day 2: Practice listening for grace in your body.
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 relax your body and listen to your breath as if it is the breath of God slowly and gently moving through you from head to toe. Write what feelings and sensations emerge. It may help to close your eyes and place your hands over your heart or your belly.
How can you offer more grace to your body? Say a prayer of gratitude for God’s grace.
What grace can you offer to the bodies of those around you? Say a prayer of gratitude for God’s grace.
What grace can you offer to the bodies of those far from you? Say a prayer of gratitude for God’s grace.
Reflect and journal about your responses.
Explore creative ways to share grace with someone throughout the week. Even if that someone is yourself.
