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🌐 Meeting God with anger during our long Lent

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February 21, 2026

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I stand in front of the priest, waiting. Grinding a thumb into a container full of black dust, she reaches up and makes two marks on my head, one down, the other over.

Ash cross on forhead for Ash Wednesday

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

She squats slightly, reaching her hand out to my young son, who is standing next to me holding my hand.

“May I put something on your head?” she asks.

“No,” he responds, ever a toddler, but then he leans forward.

She makes the downward mark on his forehead swiftly.

“Remember, you are dust,” she says, but then he interrupts, “No, I’m Eli.”

Smiling, she marks the crossbar....

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