There was a time that I tried to give up something for Lent and when I wasn’t able to sustain these resolutions (much like New Year resolutions), it resulted in guilt. I’ve learnt in the last few years to ‘add’ instead of ‘subtract’ for Lent. I’ve started adding on some meaningful practices instead of giving up something. Today, I’m sharing the Lenten Resources I’m loving and finding meaningful this year.
Lent has become, for me, less about striving and more about paying attention. It’s a season that gently invites me to slow down, listen more deeply, and notice what is stirring beneath the surface of ordinary days. This year, that invitation feels closely tied to one of my practices for 2026: learning to truly be here – paying close attention to what this moment is asking of me, and what being here genuinely means in my life.
“In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper in the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.” — Howard Thurman
Lenten Resources I’m Loving (and the Music That’s Carrying Me Through)
#1 Pray As You Go continues to be a steady rhythm. Scripture, music, and silence invite me into prayer without hurry, helping me show up to the present moment with gentleness. I love the depth and variety of these reflections.
#2 Kate Bowler’s reflections from Have a Beautiful, Terrible Life have been grounding. Her words remind me that life is messy as are we, but there’s always hope and laughter.
Lent is the forty day season that begins on Ash Wednesday and leads us, slowly and deliberately, toward Easter. It mirrors Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness and has been practiced by the church since at least the fourth century. Ash Wednesday marks the start of that journey, when the church tells the truth about our limits out loud—using ash because words alone won’t do.
Lent doesn’t promise relief. It doesn’t offer a five-step plan for transcendence. It simply invites honesty. Forty days to stop pretending that we are fine, that we are in control, that we can outrun our limits with enough discipline or optimism. – Kate Bowler
#3 The Quiet Collection by Emily P. Freeman offers reflections that help me calm my inner pace and notice how God works quietely and powerfully in my life.
Stillness is to my soul as decluttering is to my home. Silence and stillness are how I sift through the day’s input. The silence serves as a colander, helping me discern what I need to hold on to and allowing what I don’t need to fall gently away, making space to access courage and creativity, quieting to hear the voice of God.- Emily P. Freeman
The Music I’m Loving Right Now
Music has become its own kind of prayer for me this season – a soundtrack to slow mornings, writing in silence, and moments of reflection.
This is the playlist that’s been carrying me through these days: Lent 2026 – playlist by Corinne @ The Frangipani Creative. I created it with songs that feel meditative, peaceful, and heart-opening – music that helps me rest into stillness and pay attention to the moment I’m in.
Together, these resources help anchor my days – not by filling space, but by inviting me into the space I’m already in, more fully and more gently.
Wherever you are in this season, may you find moments of quiet, presence that feels like grace, and music that reminds you, again and again, to just be here.
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This is a beautiful read, Corinne. I like how you approach Lent — “not by filling space, but by inviting me into the space I’m already in, more fully and more gently.” It made me feel like a door opening to a sunlit space, accompanied by breeze and calm.
Thank you, Vini. Your words are so poetic. Hugs.