MARCH 6 – ASH WEDNESDAY

Take whatever posture feels appropriate.  Light a candle if you want.

Breath in deeply saying “from dust I came”

Breath out slowly saying “to dust I will return”

Repeat this until you can allow yourself to recognize your mortality and grieve it.

What thoughts arise?  What emotions come up?  Do you feel anything physically in your body?

Life, lovely while it lasts, is soon over.
Life as we know it, precious and beautiful, ends.
The body is put back in the same ground it came from.
The spirit returns to God, who first breathed it.

Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 MSG