Our theme for Lent this year is “Practicing Awareness,” and we will begin to explore what this means during our Ash Wednesday service this evening at 7p in the sanctuary. This will be a short service that will include not only the usual scripture reading, prayer, and singing but also plenty of time for silence and stillness. We will put ashes on each other’s forehead and say the words, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.”
These words are a way of practicing awareness of our own mortality, but they are also a reminder that it is within and through these mortal...