By Nadia Bolz-Weber 2-27-2012
- Day 1: Pray for your enemies
- Day 2: Walk, carpool, bike or bus it.
- Day 3: Don’t turn on the car radio
- Day 4: Give $20 to a non-profit of your choosing
- (Sunday)
- Day 5: Take 5 minutes of silence at noon
- Day 6: Look out the window until you find something of beauty you had not noticed before
- Day 7: Give 5 items of clothing to Goodwill
- Day 8: No bitching day
- Day 9: Do someone else’s chore
- Day 10: Buy a few $5 fast food gift cards to give to homeless people you encounter
- (Sunday)
- Day 11: Call an old friend
- Day 12: Pray the Paper (pray for people and situations in today’s news)
- Day 13: Read Psalm 139
- Day 14: Pay a few sincere compliments
- Day 15: Bring your own mug
- Day 16: Educate yourself about human trafficking
- (Sunday)
- Day 17: Forgive someone
- Day 18: Internet diet
- Day 19: Change one light in your house to a compact florescent
- Day 20: Check out morning and evening prayer at The Daily Office.
- Day 21: Ask for help
- Day 22: Tell someone what you are grateful for
- (Sunday)
- Day 23: Introduce yourself to a neighbor
- Day 24: Read Psalm 121
- Day 25: Bake a cake
- Day 26: No shopping day
- Day 27: Light a virtual candle
- Day 28: Light an actual candle
- (Sunday)
- Day 29: Write a thank you note to your favorite teacher
- Day 30: Invest in canvas shopping bags
- Day 31: Use Freecycle
- Day 32: Donate art supplies to your local elementary school
- Day 33: Read John 8:1-11
- Day 34: Worship at a friend’s mosque, synogogue or church and look for the beauty
- (Sunday)
- Day 35: Confess a secret
- Day 36: No sugar day – where else is there sweetness in your life?
- Day 37: Give $20 to a local non-profit
- Day 38: Educate yourself about a saint
- Day 39: Pray for peace
- Day 40: Pray for your enemies (you probably have new ones by now) then decide which of these exercises you’ll keep for good
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