Ash Wednesday

meditation on theologian Robert Hughes' "Beloved Dust"

Bradford Johnson, Untitled, 1987.

“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

These profound words call us to a Holy Lent. Lent is a penitential season that calls on us to remember that God created us, and that we live and breathe and have our being in God. According to the second creation story in Genesis, God created us out of the dust of the…