Read on blog or Reader purpleraysblog posted: " * Ash Wednesday "It is a strange anointing, this cross that comes to mark us as Lent begins. Ashes, dust, dirt: the stuff we walk upon, that we sweep away, that we work to get rid of, now comes to remind us who we are, where we are from, where " Purplerays Read on blog or Reader #Contemplation . . . Ash Wednesday! purpleraysblog February 14 * Ash Wednesday "It is a strange anointing, this cross that comes to mark us as Lent begins. Ashes, dust, dirt: the stuff we walk upon, that we sweep away, that we work to get rid of, now comes to remind us who we are, where we are from, where we are bound. How terrible. And how marvelous, that God should feel so tender toward the dust as to create us from it, and return us to it, breathing through us all the while. Even after releasing us from the blessed dust at the last, God continues to breathe us toward whatever it is we are becoming." Jan Richardson Let us pray for one another in all our "becoming" this Lent. * * * Text and image source: Jamberoo Abbey https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02gMU8eutUQcHJizDLvz7TPz755Xv2W19GjKoUxD7nAF6woy2dVv8FwfpBFZdAK8mhl&id=100081996750333&mibextid=2JQ9oc Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment.

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