2017 Lenten Season Prayer Guide

Nicole
February 25, 2017
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My husband, Howie, as youth pastor is asking the adults of all ages to consider committing the Lenten 2017 season to pray specifically for one student involved in the church community. To this end, I developed a prayer guide meant to assist that process by directing the one praying in centering prayer and then focusing prayerful attention on one of the teenagers.

This Lenten prayer guide will also be modified so that it can be used across multiple social media and can be engaged piecemeal or in its entirety.

If Lent is not a feature of your faith tradition or current practice, I still welcome you to participate in the mindfulness spiritual practices of inward centering prayer and outward graced attention toward another.

You may wish to follow this guide to help center yourself during Lent. Perhaps, there is a justice concern or family member or particular group of people that occupies your heart. Here you might direct these prayers outward over any of these.

If you would like to participate, you can “like” the Lenten Season, 2017 page of our just Church virtual community to receive daily notifications of each day’s prayer. If you prefer to receive them through another medium, the daily prayer guide will also be posted via my Instagram (@interiorcastle), Twitter (@interiorcastle), and LinkedIn accounts. If you would like to download the entire document to have on hand, to write in, etc., please Facebook message me with your email address and I will send the document in pdf form by Ash Wednesday.

I look forward to paying attention and being present together during this Lenten Season!

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Nicole Oliver Snyder’s expertise lies in the areas of leadership, gender issues, and mindfulness practice as it affects both. Leadership, particularly in an urban setting, requires community-relations skills, and an ability to clearly convey justice issues as they relate to felt, spiritual ones. Dr. Snyder is author of Leading Together: Mindfulness and the Gender Neutral Zone, and specializes in teaching mindfulness leadership development, formative spirituality, counseling, and Old Testament theology (emphasis on justice issues). She has a diverse background in international community-relations work combined with volunteer work in multi-ethnic communities, and with local institutions. She is an ordained Clergy; holds a BS in Human Development and Family Studies, w/Education Certificate, an MA-Counseling, MDiv Equiv., holds a Doctor of Ministry and Advanced Certification in Formative Spiritual Direction, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (CO, MI).

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howie snyder February 27, 2017 at 12:37 pm

Reblogged this on Howie's Blog and commented:
My wife helped me out with this project by doing an amazing job on this Prayer Guide. Lent ends with Easter on April 16, which is one week prior to our Confirmation Service. So this is a vital time to be praying for the youth who are in our Onward Bound Confirmation Program. If you are an adult of our church (First United Methodist Church of Downers Grove) and would like to be pared with a student to pray for, please private message, text or email me to let me know. We’ll provide an opportunity to volunteer for this at the Ash Wednesday Service as well. If you are a student and would like to be prayed for over the next 40 days, please let me know as well. Excited about this Lenten Season and anticipating God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in our midst in this time!