Today is Ash Wednesday. I usually think about the beginning of Lent today and how it is a time of sacrifice in preparation for Easter. I wondered if maybe I could think of it a little different this year. The idea of the ashes is supposed to remind us of the idea ashes to ashes dust to dust. We are all going to die, but as I have been learning lately, I don’t think that is the end of the story. I mean it’s not like my body is going to disappear when I die. It will decompose and become ashes and dust. It will become part of the Earth.
Maybe that’s what I am supposed to be understanding on this day. When I die, what makes me who I am isn’t going to die, I am just going to go back into whatever existence God is. I will be what I was before, what I have always been, and what I will always be. God’s light will guide me along with way.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
