40 Pins for Lent

Forty days and forty nights.  Lent is approaching quickly.  Several sources have offered word-a-day projects or hashtag-a-day systems for your Lenten practice.  This set of 40 pins are simply starters for your creative response.  There are enough for 40 days, however many of us find that we have to seek and pray with these in two and three day stints. 

What do you do, how do you pin?  Remembering a bulletin board, but also refering to the social media platform Pinterest, to put a pin in something is to pick it up and place it so that you can come back to it.  Sometimes it is the creating and the searching that is the most important.  Other times it is looking at how the pinned responses play with each other. 

A pin could be any type of response.  Perhaps it is taking a photo, perhaps writing a journal entry, or maybe it serves as a meditation mantra.  You could research a quote or find some art that connects to the word.  40 pins for Lent is open ended, do what you want with them.  (Although if you desire a social media hashtag I suggest #40pins .)

The right 40 Pin set comes from the amazing and stunningly Lenten children's novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.  I certainly hope that you might choose to pick up the novel as the season progresses, however it isn't necessary.  The words speak for themselves.  Younger readers may want to look up the definition of the word and create a response from their research. 

The left 40 Pin set comes from a poem by the Chilean Pablo Neruda titled 'The Wars'.   A startling defense of human life and an unsubtle critique of all forms of facism, the Wars is a provocative poem.  The word selection cannot help but weave itself with the narrative of Lent. 

 There are many resources available to enter a Holy Lent.  How can we help you find yours?