Tag: lenten discipline

No More Giving Up

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 19, 2021. Posted in General, GOD, HOMELESSNESS. 12 Comments on No More Giving Up

This is the way it goes: Christmas, Epiphany, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Day, Ash Wednesday, Lent. We are now in the 40 days of Lent. (This is a religious calendar, but life in New Orleans revolves around it; there’s a season of Mardi Gras for a reason). This year, I’ve made a hard shift on Lent, one many of you might disagree with. Traditionally,...

Easter 2019: How Did I Get Here?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 20, 2019. Posted in General, GOD, LOVE. 2 Comments on Easter 2019: How Did I Get Here?

My Lenten practice wasn’t random. This year, I chose to create one thing of beauty each day of Lent (Lent is 40 days). I might not have articulated it on day one, but I chose this discipline in contravention of the more traditional view of Lent as a time of deprivation, penitence, and “doing without” as a cleansing process...

Lenten Beauty: 4/13/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 15, 2019. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/13/19

In my last Lenten Beauty posting of 2019 (Holy Week, which we have now begun, is no longer Lent), I created the beautiful thing of making it to Charlotte, NC to visit my mother, despite a medical emergency on the plane and an aborted landing, represented by this comforting light in her apartment:

Lenten Beauty: 4/11/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 11, 2019. Posted in GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/11/19

Lenten Beauty: 4/10/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 10, 2019. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/10/19

Lenten Beauty: 4/9/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 9, 2019. Posted in GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/9/19

Lenten Beauty: 4/8/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 8, 2019. Posted in GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/8/19

I did not write this book. But I did share it with my grandsons this morning. I said, “I am reading the FUNNIEST book.” I told them the premise (“A squirrel gets sucked into a vacuum cleaner and comes out with superpowers.”) We read the comics in it. We opened it randomly and started reading from right where it opened....