Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Ash Wednesday puts us in our place. Dust you are and to dust you will return. Death's tyranny takes no days off. This past year has driven that home as each day we are told of more deaths. But this too: Dust you are and to life you will return. For just as one man brought sin and death into the world, so one man also brings life into the world. So today we fast and weep and mourn. But we do so not wondering whether our Lord will turn to us and relent and leave a blessing behind Him. He already has.