Week 1. Day 1 – Ash Wednesday:

One Body. Above all. Through all. In all.

  
     Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019
 “Remember, you are dust,
 And to dust you shall return.”  
 Genesis 3:19
  
 From Dust we Come and to Dust We shall Return
  
 Bursting into creation
 The thrust of Divine Love
 Sprinkled dust into existence.
 Birthed in Water. Embolden with Breath.
 Stars. Seas. Fish. Trees. Rocks. Rivers.
 You. Me.
  
 For it is from dust we come and to dust we shall return.
 Uniting all, above all, through all, in all.
  
 Each inhale and each exhale.
 Each particle of wonder surrounding us.
 Each drop of water.
 Divine Dust of our very essence.
 For our birth. Through our life. In our death.
  
 Comforting
 The grieving for loved ones now dead.
 Knowing the air now inhaled
 Holds particles of the air they breathed too.
 Carrying unseen connections into the future.
  
 This air, this water, this dust.
 Pieces of the past from generations before.
 Connections to the future
 Into all life moving forward.
 Unites all life now.
  
 For it is from dust we come and to dust we shall return.
 Uniting all, above all, through all, in all.
  

Breathprayer:

Breathing in:   Holy God…

Breathing out: …uniting all.

Reflection:   Where do you experience the connections between others and the universe?

The reflection is written for the Online Lenten Devotions of the Southeast Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

www.seiasynod.org/lent