“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). This urgent invitation of Jesus is the focus of Lent, and the reason I confess my need of it. I need Lent. That time of year when the mind’s eye and the heart’s …
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FOR ASH WEDNESDAY
Shall the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness, O God? Children of dust—scooped up, fashioned, inbreathed, enlivened, Cherished and wooed, drawn near, tasting and seeing the One who Is good, tasting and knowing joy unspeakable and full of glory. Surely the dust praised you and declared your faithfulness, O God! Then, …