We are dust

Ash Wednesday reminds us that we are dust and will return to dust someday. Janet Marie Good shared her recent Ash Wednesday experience in the Daily American:

Lent always felt like a time that I had to give up things for God. To suffer in his name. How sad.

This Wednesday I felt the enormity of his words, chewing at my insides, urging me to take the right path. So I think I am going to try something different this Lenten season. I am going to give things to God, instead. My time, my actions, my thoughts. Gifts of love. Sharing joy and happiness in his name seems so much more significant.

In his caring and kind way, God spoke to me through a humble, beautiful man in a long flowing robe, who gave his people everything he had on his last Ash Wednesday as a pastor.

It's up to us to do God's will while we are here on this earth, to share the love and joy of Him.