Wednesday February 25, 2009

Ash Wednesday

Meditation:
Ash Wednesday leads us into the penitential season of Lent. We remember that we mortal people are nothing but dust, remembering that in the beginning of time, God took a handful of dust, breathed into it, and then there was life; the first person. The intimate nearness of God is made visible in these ashes we receive today. These ashes are also a frightening reminder of all those ways in which we are separated or estranged from the light; all those ways we know as sin which disconnect us from God.
Ashes remind us of our connectedness and our disconnectedness to and from God. They remind us just how close or how far away God sometimes seems to be.
This Ash Wednesday worship is a time to repent, to return to God, to reconnect, to put ourselves and all our life in the Light of the One who promises eternal life so that every day, not just today, people will be able to see the crosses on our foreheads. They will see them in everything we say and everything we do will proclaim the good news of God in Christ. - Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek

A prayer of confession:
Gathered in this place,
with our sin and our unrighteousness,
with the injustice of the world,
and a lack of love in our hearts,
we turn to you, O God.
We long for a promise that will not fade.
We yearn for a forgiveness that will cleanse and redeem.
We look for a way that will lead us to life.
Dust is all we are, but you are more, much more.
Your mercy, your grace, your love are so much more,
more than we deserve, more than we can measure.
Hear our prayers, O God.
Hear us, redeem us, restore us,
for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Compiled by a PC Staff

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