“For some of us, coming to Ash Wednesday, coming to get the imposition of ashes, feels a little odd. It feels odd because it’s like someone living in a dust bowl being reminded that things are dusty. We know that; we open the news and often enough it reads like Henderson’s letters to a friend: ‘Letters from a Dust Bowl.’ And nevertheless, we come. ‘From dust you came, and to dust you shall return.’ Coughing, tired, struggling for any visibility – we come.”

Lectionary Readings:
Isaiah 58:1-12
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6,16-21
Psalm 103

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