Perhaps you have lots of experience with ashes. On your forehead.
The day after Mardi Gras (or Fasching, as the people from the Heimat would say).
As far as I know, I have not had much, if any, experience with ashes on my forehead
on Ash Wednesday. I did attend a service tonight. And I did participate in the imposition
of ashes. The words that most stay with me, "repent and believe in the gospel."
Words I've heard many times. Words I thought about freshly in the context of the
conference I came from last weekend about race and ethnicity and finding your place
at the multi-ethnic table (Prost!). But, words that will dig deeper in the next month and beyond.
Ashes. Dust. Repent. Believe.
May I (and you) be marked by a desire to listen intently to the Word this Lenten season.
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