Ashes
O God,
Thank you for the inescapable and wonderful reality of our humanity and of our mortality.
Thank you that they teach us, if we have eyes that see, of the value of time and of the cruciality of opportunity.
Thank you that they remind us, if we have minds that consider, of our commonality and community with all other living things and especially with all other human beings.
Thank you that they inspire us, if we have spirits that marvel, that our Lord Jesus Christ by his coming in the flesh shared in our lot and by his death and resurrection redeemed our body as well as our spirit.
Thank you for the inescapable and wonderful reality of our humanity and of our mortality. Help us to embrace it and not to try to flee from it.
Amen.
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