Ash Wednesday is the gateway to Lent. We have forty precious days to open ourselves up most particularly to God, to examine ourselves in the presence of one who created us, knows us, and loves us. We have forty days to face ourselves and learn to not be afraid of our sinfulness. We are dust, and to dust we shall return, but with God's grace we can learn to live this life more fully, embracing our sinfulness, allowing God to transform us.
~ Rev. Margaret Jones
We do not often hear someone urging us to "embrace our sinfulness." But the wisdom that today's quote calls us to is a realistic sense of who and what we are. We are not prefect, we are creatures of dust, full of frailties and prone to failure. That being the case, we ask God to work in us and to transform us. Perfection is beyond us. But we are nevertheless loved and known by the perfect love of God.
(Please join us for Ash Wednesday service at 7:30 p.m.)
