REMEMBER LIFE: ASH WEDNESDAY 2023 | |
By: Bishop Susan Brown Snook | |
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
The creation story in Genesis 2 begins with dust.
God forms a little earth-creature out of the dust of the ground, and
blows breath into the creature to bring it to life. We call the
earth-creature “Adam,” from the Hebrew word for earth, Adamah. Since
then, every earth-creature has been formed in a sense from the dust of
the earth, the elements that God brought forth in creation, dusty
elements to which our bodies will one day return.
Yet it is not only death that Ash Wednesday reminds
us of – it is life. For it is God’s breath that brought us to life, and
God’s breath that brings nourishment to every cell of our bodies, every
hour. When we are reborn in Holy Baptism, we are sealed by the Holy
Spirit, marked by the breath of God as Christ’s own forever. United with
Christ, we are invited into everlasting life by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Read More
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