Our Lenten Season Has Begun
In getting ready for the season of Lent, I offered this blessing of the dust at our Ash Wednesday service: BLESSING THE DUST All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial—did you not know what the Holy One can do with dust? This is the day we freely say…