We are dust, and to dust we shall return.
I took Marek to church on Ash Wednesday after dropping Madelyn off at school. He had already rubbed his ashes off on me at church . . .
Madelyn was only about a week and a half old when I first took her to church for Ash Wednesday (I was still VERY swollen from the pre-eclampsia) . . . February 2004 - Madelyn Grace Oley
She still has those scrumptious cheeks . . .
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.
—The Rev. Margaret Jones
—The Rev. Margaret Jones
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