Our Dust [Ash Wednesday]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Psalm 103:8-14 Our Dust It’s just dust. This won’t hurt. It will feel like when a gentle breeze causes your bangs to sweep across your forehead. It will feel just like when the priest marked you as Christ’s own forever with chrism. It’s just like that except instead of oil there will be ashes, dust. And so it won’t hurt. Unless, that is, unless you really think about it. If you really think about the ashes, if you sit with them and let them seep through your pores and into your soul, you will feel just how heavy something that weighs almost nothing can be. And then it will hurt. It will hurt like life. And it will hurt like death. Ashes are a fitting reminder of our mortality. They are what is left after life has left. And they are everywhere. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Signs of decay lazily dance in the air all around us, revealing themselves mo...