The Barefoot Evangelist

Lent is a season that resists easy answers. Even many adults aren’t quite sure what to do with it.

It invites us to slow our steps and look honestly at our lives—at the choices we make, the habits we cling to, the places where we miss the mark. Lent is about repentance, yes, but also about longing: asking God to shape us again, to teach us how to love more faithfully.

Lent is also a journey into shadow. The church often rushes toward brightness, especially with young people, as though faith must always be cheerful to be true. But joy that has never known sorrow is thin and fragile. Resurrection only matters because there is a cross.

Lent teaches us that God meets us not only in the light, but in the dark—and that both are holy ground.

If you would rather follow some of the suggestions in How to Lent with Kids, feel free to do so. This is YOUR journey and you choose how you want to follow the pillars of Lent.