"Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
It is a bit chilly on the sunny morning in the Carondelet Garden. The sun will shine all day and we should see the mid 60s by this afternoon. An absolutely perfect weather day. Happy Valentine's Day as well! Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent for many Christians. For more than fifteen hundred years, Christians have used these words to mark the day as they dip their fingers into ash, and smudge bowed foreheads with the sign of the cross. The words allude to when God admonished Adam and Eve as they left paradise in the Book of Genesis. My prayer for us today comes from a poem by Jan Richardson called “Ash Wednesday: Blessing the Dust.” So let us be marked not for sorrow. And let us be marked not for shame. Let us be marked not for false humility or for thinking we are less than we are but for claiming what God can do within the dust, within the dirt, within the stuff of which the world is made, and the stars that blaze in our bones, and the galaxies that spiral inside the smudge we bear. Amen.
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