Ash Wednesday

Did you go to Mass today, and get ashes placed on your head?

Have you reflected on the words which were said as this was being done?

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

And so we shall. When our life here on earth has ended, and it is time to go to our eternal reward, as our spirit passes into the next world, our bodies will turn to dust. Because that's what we are made of.

Without God, we are nothing. We really are just dust. We can't do anything with out Him. We have no life with out Him.

But God makes us into something. He puts the breath of life into each of us, and gives use a unique mission here on earth. No one's path to Heaven is exactly the same.

Today we got some snow here. The Snowflakes are reminding me of people. Each one is different. Each one has a certain place to land. And each one is made of water, and it will return to water in a very short time.


When you think about how long people usually live, compared to eternity, our lives are nothing. When you think about what we do for God, compared to what He does for us, our sacrifice is nothing. When you think about His infinite Goodness, compared to our little goodness and endless faults, we are nothing.

Yes, We are made of dust, and to dust we shall return. But God has also created for us a Soul. And in that Soul, when we live in Him and Him in us, and His infinite goodness and mercifulness touches us, we have life. Eternal Life.