Meditation on Ashes

Ash Wednesday

2-2010

I close my eyes

against dust

pressed

into my forehead.

Close them

against the reality of death.

Yet Christ has conquered

death –

what shall I fear?

These:

actions and inactions –

the ways I bring death

in so many little ways

each day.

I fear this brokenness

in me

in you;

so I squeeze them

shut.

And all

can see

the ash

but me.