Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Ash Wednesday and the Marks of Mortality

Make no mistake:  mortality marks us all:



Some of us wear our marks more openly than others, but we are all slowly returning to dust:



We find our various ways to be brave in the face of this knowledge:



We do the work that must be done:



The palms that once waved over our pre-Easter, Holy Week celebrations are ready for a different starring role today:



The universe is built on this forming and reforming of matter and energy.  The universe is inside each of us, and we carry with us the history of the stars and the universe.


All our earthly atoms are made of recycled stars.  We are the dust of stars and to dust we shall all return:


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