Yes, it's now Friday, but Ash Wednesday passed by us not unnoticed. We went to our first Ash Wed. service, full of repentant Psalms and readings from exhorting passages of Scripture and experienced the dust of ashes painted in a little cross on our foreheads. "From dust you came and to dust you will return." After more prayers, knees numbed and thighs aching from kneeling, we walked out from communion with clean hearts and hands challenged to serve 40 days and nights seeking God's face.
"Had you desired it, I would have offered sacrifice;
but you take no delight in burnt-offerings.
The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."
Ps.51
4 comments:
What a beautiful service to have participated in. If it was in the old Episcopal Church in town, it was beautiful for lots of reasons!
What are you giving up then for Lent?
Kermit is giving up beer, Electra chocolate...
We were driving back from the beach (in CA) the other day, and started wondering why we were seeing so many people with smudges on their foreheads... Suddenly we felt like terrible heathens. I love the Ash Wednesday service and am so sorry to have missed it yet again.
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