Lent: Season of Renewal
Lent is a religious tradition in which Christians exalt every year. Lent season lasts for forty days and it begins with Ash Wednesday until Easter. Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance, this marks the beginning of the Lenten season. People start by confessing their sins, repent and profess their devotion to God. In the church, everyone will be smudged with ashes on their forehead in the form of a cross. It is the ashes from burned palms that also symbolize both our death and penitence. During Lent, people pray for forgiveness. They repent and turn from one way of life back to God. This is about them asking for forgiveness and deliberately changing the perspective of how they see God, changing the way they think of him, and unconditionally surrender and commend their soul to him. Adding to that is the common practice of fasting and giving something up. Committing to fasting symbolizes and commemorates the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as he went through his journey into
