Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Lent: remember that you are dust


Ash Wednesday. Today. Next to Anna, Book of Common Prayer in our hands, hearing “Is this not the kind of fast I have chosen?” (from Isaiah 58)

{Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.}

Make space to sit with God, to sit with the Church, with Family. In living rooms, kitchen tables, those footstools from the 1960s – the ones your grandpa left behind – that everyone loves so much. Wherever, whenever, just make some space.

{And remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.}

The bread, the common cup, Eucharist. The Lord be with you {and also with you}. Even though we have not loved our neighbor. Even though we have not heard the cry of the needy. Still, forgive. Still, we repent. Have mercy on us!

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Amen.

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