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 the desert for forty days. This is one of the ways people do to connect with him, through Lenten sacrifice.
Another thing Christians do during the Lenten season is to give alms, lending help, and doing something good to others as an endowment to God's love, his blessing, and generosity.
On the other note, we should always remember to do good things, and that we must admit our sins and mistakes, and repent. We should always be grateful for the life that we have not just in this time of the year, but every day, for Jesus sacrificed his life to save us, for us to live.
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