Some Examples of Lenten Practices

On the UMC Worship site several years ago, Daniel Benedict suggested several excellent Lenten Practices that would help us prepare for Easter. For example:

___Spend time in solitude each day.
___ Read a book for inner growth.
___ Read twice through the Gospel of the lectionary cycle you are in. (Mark in 2009).
___ Begin to keep a journal of prayer concerns, questions, reading.
___ Focus on thanksgiving, rather than on asking, in prayer.
___ Give myself a gift of three hours to do something you always say you don't have time to do. 
___ Give up a grudge or a rehearsal of a past event.
___ Forgive someone who has hurt me. 
___ Plan to visit a "shut-in" neighbor or church member weekly.
___ Write a letter of affirmation once a week to a person who has touched my life.