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“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” — Mark 8: 31-38

Lent is often known as a time of giving something up in order to make room in our lives for spiritual pursuits. Rather than just “giving up” in Lent, our sacred stories ask us to consider all that Jesus is “up to” and all that he asks us to be up to in our life together. Instead of bemoaning what we can’t do or used to do in a culture where “measuring up” to external standards seems impossible, this Lent, we will celebrate the small things that we can do right now to respond to the call of Jesus in our place, for our time.