Carbon Fast for Lent
Pancake day is nearly here (on 1st March) which not only means that we get to have pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if we so choose) but that Lent will be starting on Wednesday 2nd.
For some of us, Lent is another chance at New Year’s resolutions, for others it is a time of deep reflection and pressing into what Holy Spirit is doing. And for some of us (like me, most years) it passes us by because we couldn’t think of something more original to give up than chocolate – plus we weren’t that committed to giving up chocolate anyway… Lent is a full 40 days, and who wants to avoid chocolate for that long?
This Lent I wanted to help myself and others to learn about and reduce our environmental impact. May I introduce the Carbon Fast for Lent. Each week you will receive an email with easy, medium and harder challenges along with a prayer, some light info on the topic and some links to useful websites and materials.
There are challenges for everybody, whether you are new to considering climate in your daily walk, or whether you have been mindful of your climate impact for 50 years. To give you a taster, the challenges are as simple as playing board games instead of watching tv one night, all the way up to joining a local campaign group.
Why not join with your family or a group of friends and take on the fast together?
Alice Corrie