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Thursday Read: The First Day of Lent - Beginning the Journey
Yesterday's ashes marked the beginning; today begins the actual work. Lent stretches forty days ahead (excluding Sundays, which are always mini-Easters even during Lent), mirroring Jesus's forty days in the wilderness. This isn't arbitrary - forty represents complete testing, full preparat
Wednesday Prayer: Ash Wednesday
Father, today I'm marked with ashes and reminded I'm dust. This is uncomfortable truth in a culture that denies death, but it's true. I am dust - mortal, fragile, dying, unable to save myself. Every pretension I maintain will eventually return to dust too. Thank you for loving dust. Thank
Wednesday Read: Ash Wednesday - Remember You Are Dust
Today priests mark foreheads with ashes made from burning last year's Palm Sunday palms, speaking words that echo Genesis 3:19: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." It's a stark confrontation with mortality in a culture that denies death. No platitudes, no positive t
Tear Your Heart
Tear your heart, not just your garments. I see through religious performance to what's happening inside. I'm not impressed by external displays if your heart isn't engaged. Come back to Me with genuine repentance, real sorrow for sin, honest desire for transformation. I'm gracious and comp