This photo was from a year ago when I preached at the Ash Wednesday service at New Beginnings, the Lutheran church that meets inside the walls of the women’s prison in Denver (and one of the three local communities I am officially in relationship with here in Denver).
There is peace in absorbing your words of sometimes uncomfortable truth, in the service you shared with Kate Bowler and your son and in the voice of Rachel Kurtz. The truth of our impermanence overwhelmed me with the death of my beloved wife, Margaret in September, 2019 and that of her only sister soon after. I still need to find full acceptance of it and to believe in the promises of God.
I'm down the list for a vaccine and wouldn't have felt safe at church so I said a prayer and put the ashes on my own forehead. Whence came my ashes you wonder? The joint I'd smoked the evening before to calm my anxieties and mellow my depression. It felt so freaking RIGHT!
Ash Wednesday has always been kind of a head scratching mystery to me (in my drinking days I mostly knew it as the red eyed hungover sequel to Fat Tuesday)
THANKS for giving me something to chew on;
and nice picture, it always amazes me how God just shows up
loved the ash wednesday service from you and Kate and Rachel and Judah. Of course I watched it on Thursday because you know No Power and all that! thank you!
There is peace in absorbing your words of sometimes uncomfortable truth, in the service you shared with Kate Bowler and your son and in the voice of Rachel Kurtz. The truth of our impermanence overwhelmed me with the death of my beloved wife, Margaret in September, 2019 and that of her only sister soon after. I still need to find full acceptance of it and to believe in the promises of God.
Thank you so much, Nadia. Down in the disaster in Texas & the collective trauma is just way too much. Needed this today. Thank you. ♥️
I'm down the list for a vaccine and wouldn't have felt safe at church so I said a prayer and put the ashes on my own forehead. Whence came my ashes you wonder? The joint I'd smoked the evening before to calm my anxieties and mellow my depression. It felt so freaking RIGHT!
Nice.
Ash Wednesday has always been kind of a head scratching mystery to me (in my drinking days I mostly knew it as the red eyed hungover sequel to Fat Tuesday)
THANKS for giving me something to chew on;
and nice picture, it always amazes me how God just shows up
As my momma used to say of dust and stars...you are made. Thank you for this! Sooo needed. Xx
loved the ash wednesday service from you and Kate and Rachel and Judah. Of course I watched it on Thursday because you know No Power and all that! thank you!
Do you remember what was going thru your mind in that picture's moment?