Ashes!

It is now Ash Wednesday and the Lenten journey has begun. Lent calls us to reflect upon Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness. He fasted and prayed and he faced temptation -- temptation to take the easy road to success. Be flashy, the tempter said. But Jesus chose a different route, one that led to the cross. By any "worldly" measure, Jesus was in his earthly life at least, an abject failure. And yet!

The ashes they are the marker of death and the marker of grief. We come today to receive the mark of death, knowing that in the process we return to life. This is the path Jesus took and he invites us to follow upon it.

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