In spring, after a long winter’s nap, an amazing thing happens: the world comes back to life!

This devotional is full of ideas and activities that can help us wake up, too, preparing our hearts, minds, and communities for Easter’s great celebration. Each week, biblical texts and creation’s wonders inspire practices you can try yourself, with your family or friends, or with your congregation.

So grab your favorite Bible and some candles (tealights work nicely!), and over the next 40 days, week by week, we’ll look for treasures that can help bring us back to hope, back to love, back to life!

The scriptural passages in this devotional correspond to Year C in the Revised Common Lectionary – but since their themes are universal, this devotional can be used fruitfully during any Lenten season.  

(SALT has a Customizable Short Film (CSF), “Picturing Resurrection,” designed as a companion to this devotional, for a seamless approach to the season. Customized with your church name and worship times, CSFs are a great way to spice up your website, social, and invitation-to-worship game. The film includes the same art and themes as the devotional – and every purchase of the film comes with the devotional for free!)

Files: This listing is for a downloadable PDF, printing instructions for the 8.5 x 11 devotional, and an e-reader version of the devotional as well. With this congregational license, any or all of these can be distributed (electronically or in hard copy) to members of your congregation.

Please note: you will not receive a physical product as this is a digital download. This resource is for congregational use only, which means it may not be reproduced commercially, duplicated, or resold :)