Feb 14, 2024
Ash Wednesday is the day the season of Lent begins. It's a season in which we are invited to think about dying and confront the straightforward reality of our humanity—our flaws and frailty and limits and imperfections. We remember and admit our need for God. We accept our mortality.
For me, it's typically a reminder I hold personally. I don’t alway recognize the reality of our shared mortality. But the truth is, we are all dust. We are all fragile and limited beings, in need of God’s grace, God’s care, Christ’s compassion. I am dust and you are dust and we are dust. And maybe Ash Wednesday can also remind us how to treat each other accordingly. Listen in.
Barbie written + directed by Greta Gerwig
In a Year of Death, Ash Wednesday Offers Unexpected Hope
by Tish Harrison Warren
{Correction: in this episode, I mistakenly share that this article
was published in 2023. It was published in Christianity
Today in 2021}