Dear Folks,
"You come from dust, and to dust you shall return."
These
are the words that I use as I administer ashes. At first glance, there
is a certain fatalistic morbidness conveyed. We were born, we are
going to die.
True enough.
But,
these words are not uttered in a vacuum. These words are surrounded by
the whole of the Gospel. In Jesus Christ, we know that the dust from
which we were created was brought into being by God. The breath that
was breathed into that dust is God's breath, and that the whole of all
that dust is held in God's presence eternally.
Yes, we are dust, but we are God's dust. Thanks be to God!
May
this Lenten season be a time for us to claim our divine dusty-ness and
strengthen our relationship with God, others, and ourselves.
Let us pray. O Holy One, may you sweep us up into your eternal love. Amen.
In Christ's love,
Rev. Lucille
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