![]() We continue to endure COVID-brain, COVID-appetite, COVID-fatigue. We don’t need a priest to tell us that we are dust and to dust we will return. Some of us adults possibly feel like we dwell in a suffocating ash heap. We want our children to believe they are amazing and exceptional and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Most of us don’t tell our children they are dust. The secular might pull the devout aside and whisper, “ Hey there’s something on your forehead” not knowing that this is an intentional mark of penitence and mortality often worn by Christians on the first day of Lent. Today there will be Ash Wednesday church services and drive-through Imposition of Ashes throughout the land, and depending on where we live, we might see a lot of people with ash-smudged foreheads or we might not see a single person with ash marks. ![]() ![]() You are dust and to dust you will return.
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