sober awareness of our frailty, sins and smallness. It starts on Ash
Wednesday when those ashes are traced on our foreheads in the shape of
the cross, a tactile reminder of our origins in the dust. From there
we come, and to there we will go.
You want to really live, the kind of living that drains the marrow
from every day? Then start by facing your death, your weakness, your
smallness.
We spend seven weeks facing our death and despair and doubt, entering
into it with the fullness of our being—heart, mind, emotions.
--Rob Bell
