We will all return to ashes.

Although I didn’t go to a Ash Wednesday service I feel like this week has been a reminder of the frailty of humans and the precious life I take for granted often times.  I went out for a run yesterday.  The sun was so warm and beautiful.  It is my longest run yet.  I can celebrate that!

As a Church, we begin our journey to the cross.  We bring all our brokeness.  Catherine Sine writes: The reason we focus on our brokenness and need for repentance is so that
we can be healed and enabled to become all that God intends us to be.

It is easy to jump to the healing part but there is something about the dark shadow of the cross.  Christ willingly entered the pain of the world.  Sine in her devotional also talks about how that is part of our call as Christians.  We are to enter the suffering of the world.  That is challenging, especially when the violence and pain of the world invades our peaceful life.