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The Rev. Wesley Rowell: The Ashes We Carry

We all carry personal ashes- grief, addiction, regret, exhaustion. The forgiveness we withhold. The people we quietly despise. And we carry collective ashes -the injustices we lament and the systems we quietly benefit from and prefer not to see. We do not only suffer injustice. We participate in it. We do not need to go looking for ashes. They are already on our hands. The question is not whether we carry them. The question is whether we will face them. Lent invites us to descend. Not to wallow. But to tell the truth. And when we tell the truth long enough-about our sin, our fear, our limits-something surprising happens. Truth does not crush us. It clears space. And we can tell the truth from the ground because God has knelt there before us.