Remember that You Are Dust

I wrote the headline above on a Thursday morning after reading Lenten passages from the Book of Common Prayer: "Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Savior, Amen."

And this from the season's Litany of Penitence: "Accept our repentance, Lord, for the wrongs we have done, for our blindness to human need and suffering, and our indifference to injustice and cruelty."