Ashes & Dust - Ash Wednesday Musings

Ashes and dust . . .
A metaphor . . .
God’s way of reminding us . . .
You may be temporary
But I am not. . .
It is not cause for mourning. . .
This ‘being dust’ . . .
Rather, it is cause for reflection . . .
Reflection on the reality of things. . .
And the reality . . .
The enormity. . .
Of God.
As large as our lives loom before us. . .
As big as all the parts of the earth
and its entirety are. .
As vast as is space and the expanding universe . . .
Even all of that
cannot contain . . .
Define. . .
Or refine. . .
God
It is said that we gather at this time
to especially remember . . .
to remember in this Lenten, this ‘lengthening’ time
how very short we are . . .
Rising up
And falling short . . . every day . . .
And to remember that we humans
are finite
set upon the lap of the Limitless,
We are limited. . .
And to remember that the Limitless God stands in relation to us as Creator
Maker
Caressing Potter
Chiseling Sculptor
Careful Painter
Consummate Artist
that we may bask in the glory not of our own special-ness
but in the reflected glory of such an Artisan as This
that we may behold
And be glad