The Soul’s Journey Through Lent – A Lenten Offering for Heart and Soul
A Different Kind of Fast – Feeding our True Hungers in Lent
Sundays, February 22 – April 5, 2026 • 10:00 AM Central • on Zoom
Facilitated by Chris Flynn
“What if this season became a feast of awareness — a way of clearing space so the Holy could breathe freely within us?”
This six-week journey invites us to experience Lent as a sacred unfolding of simplicity, beauty, and the nourishment that comes from within. Guided by Christine Valters Painter’s A Different Kind of Fast, we’ll rediscover this season as a time of renewal — a gentle awakening to what truly sustains the soul.
Our shared text offers reflections and spiritual practices that open the heart to balance, gratitude, and sacred awareness. We’ll deepen this work through creative invitations inspired by Julia Cameron’s Never Too Late to Begin Again — incorporating Morning Pages, Artist Dates, and personal sacred ceremonies as simple, joyful ways to nurture the soul during Lent. (No additional book is required.)
Each week invites a rhythm of reading, contemplation, creativity, and community. Together we’ll explore what it means to release busyness, judgment, and self-criticism — and to open instead to spaciousness, wonder, and divine presence.
This circle is for anyone longing for a mindful, heart-centered way to walk through the Lenten season — a time to breathe, create, and remember what truly feeds the spirit.
Chris Flynn
Chris has been facilitating heart-centered groups for over 50 years. She creates Sacred Spaces where folks feel safe and comfortable expressing and sharing what’s in their hearts and minds.
Chris was ordained with a Master in Ministry of Spiritual Counseling and is a certified grief counselor. She formed and facilitated Conscious Connections Community, a singles ministry, for 20 years. She went on to work with both Hospice and Suicide Prevention, facilitating groups and trainings. Currently she loves facilitating book study groups for the Christine Center.
Chris lives in the California Redwoods with her husband and Saint Bernard. Eight years ago, while visiting her Wisconsin relatives, she discovered the Christine Center and immediately found her spiritual home. She has attended many of the Christine Center’s virtual classes, the weekly Tao group, plus, last year she attended in person, The Tao in the Summer. Through ‘Quantum Connecting via Zoom’ (thank you Sr. Gabe), Chris enjoys her deep connection with the Christine Center community.