A few of us gathered in the quiet of St. Andrew's late yesterday --- as the sun was settling --- for a simple service of silence, the spoken word and ashes, navigating by the Book of Common Prayer.
I had found a quote from the last blog post of the late Rachel Held Evans earlier in the day, incorporating those familiar words, "Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return."
Last evening, the words of the litany of penance seemed to have special power, shifting the focus from the perceived "sins" of others inward at a time when so much wickedness seems to have been loosed on the world.
In search of appropriate and useful response.
Evil is where you find it and there seems to be an overabundance this year as the season of Lent begins --- on the world stage in Urkaine; closer to home and on a more intimate scale in Iowa and elsewhere, among legislators and other politicians seemingly intent on demonizing, among others, transgender children and their parents.
This morning, I found this lovely performance of Edward Elgar's ninth Enigma variation, "Nimrod," performed by the St. Olaf College Orchestra as a tribute to the people of Ukraine.
There's much to think about during the next 40 days.
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