SUN 4/8 A New Source *
"For you are dust & to dust you shall return." Gen. 3:19"Ashes mark our foreheads, reminding us of our vulnerability, our frail nature, our weakness, mortality & our sin. We are free to do this because we know that the season of Lent leads us to he festival of the Resurrection. Out of weakness, strength emerges."
My Meditation
You don't even have to make an educated guess to know that this was the devotion for Ash Wednesday. Why reference it today? The events of the past few months--both mine & my loved ones--have made me especially aware of my own vulnerability, frail nature, weakness, & mortality. Ash Wednesday is a bookend, jolting us with images of ashes + darkness. Thanks be to God that Easter is the other bookend, jolting us with the promise of our own rejuvenation & resurrection, thanks to our Savior's resurrected victory over sin & death & whatever the devil throws at us.* I'm taking a break from Martin Luther's meditations in order to share excerpts from At the Crossroads, a Lenten devotional book that I used as one of my "quiet time" resources during the Lenten season this year. Although it's no longer Lent, the scriptural insights shared by the author, David Kehret, extend beyond the seasonal boundaries.
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