Day #2983

March 2, 2022 

Oh, how reverent and special it was to have Ash Wednesday worship again - in person with the imposition of ashes and Holy Communion. Yes, it is somber to be reminded that we are dust and to dust we shall return. Yet, it is also life-giving to be reminded that the One who created the dust, created us, and one day will bring us back to be with God forever. 

There was also this poem in the “prayer” section of the d365 devotion for this day. These words are from “Blessing the Dust,” found in Painted Prayerbook by Jan Richardson:

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. 

Blessings. And prayers