From Ashes to Alleluia:

A Seven-Week Journey through Lent

From Ashes to Alleluia: A Seven-Week Journey through Lent

by Geoffrey Schmitt

Lent begins in ashes — but it ends in light.

In this seven-week devotional study, author and pastor Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to walk the ancient road of Lent as a living journey of transformation. Each chapter combines Scripture, reflection, poem, prayer, and “Smithy’s Forge” meditation to guide the heart from repentance to resurrection.

Week by week, readers move from humility to hope:

• Ashes — Remember you are dust, yet beloved dust.
• Wilderness — Tested and strengthened by grace.
• Crossroads — Choosing God’s way over comfort.
• Healing — The compassion of Christ that restores.
• Forgiveness — The open door of mercy.
• Passion — The road to the Cross, where love endures.
• Alleluia — The dawn of new life.

From the first mark of repentance to the sunrise of Easter, From Ashes to Alleluia reminds us that every surrender opens the way to joy — and that the forge of God’s love always shapes us for resurrection.