![]() ![]() Lenten submission is not groveling in hope of divine lenience. Lenten observance is the candid recognition that this is so and that we ourselves, in ways large and small, are implicated beyond our ability to fathom, much less rectify.Īsh Wednesday does not signal the menace of divine carnage. Yet such acknowledgment entails the confession that Creation’s orbit is off-kilter, now more like a demolition derby, the whole world shaking and rattling and crashing one into the other in a seemingly insatiable quest for supremacy, seized (and self-hallowed) by strength of hand or guile of spirit or deceit of agency. To live in this sort of leisure, this sort of rest, comes by acknowledging Creation’s gravitational sway on history’s alignment with the Creator’s assignment. ![]() The ashen smudge is not accusation but recognition of our frenzied and frantic efforts at braggadocios living it is the call to reclaim our true selves in the leisure of Sabbath’s composure aligned with Creation’s intent. The imposition of Ash Wednesday, inaugurating the practice of Lenten lament, is the preparation for and anticipation of the exultation of Easter Morning.
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