Ash Wednesday and the Lenten journey is an invitation to follow Jesus in the Way of the Cross. It is an invitation to die to our false and passing selves and to wake up and rise with our deeper and truer divine selves in God.
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
The mantra of Ash Wednesday and Lent and of our lives.
St.Benedict reminds us that every day we should remind ourselves of our mortality. This is not a morbid remembering. It is a remembering that enables us to let go of that which is passing and to open up to that which is lasting and full of meaning and purpose in our lives.
On the first Sunday of Lent, Jesus invites us to follow him into the wilderness to struggle with our false selves, our egos and controlling minds. This place of silence and solitude is where real healing and transformation begins. Why? Because we have to face ourselves. Like Jesus, if we want to know resurrection and new life, we have to face our shadow selves.
And the good news is that we are not alone in this journey into self discovery and self awareness (which ultimately leads to God awareness). The Risen Christ journey’s with us as our deepest and truest self.
God loves us as we are. But God is never done with the work of evolving us into the fullness of Love. This deep divine Love draws us into a life long process of dying to our false selves and rising to the healing and transformation of the new life of Love.
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
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