@writtentospeak

class="content__text" Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a day of reflection and repentance from sin. Ash Wednesday rubs reality in your face. It doesn’t sugarcoat the truth or attempt to make you smile. Ash Wednesday disregards feelings and simply says it like it is: Dust you are and to dust you shall return. Today, we remember our sin and and we acknowledge that death is on the way. We remember our brokenness and failures and shortcomings and fragility and end. I know, this isn’t something we want to do, but there is purpose in this. Remembering the pain we’ve caused and the hurt we’ve given is not the most pleasant place for our hearts and minds to take up residence. And it certainly isn’t easy to reflect on our own death as death seems to be all around us. But this is not where we stay. We reflect and we repent. We look in and we look up. We step back to turn away. We hold it close before we lay it down. We speak, but we also hear. We hear hope and love and peace spoken by the One who spoke life into us. We hear as He reminds us again and again of His grace upon grace. When we reflect upon our sin the strength of grace becomes infinitely more beautiful. And grace is a wonderful place to build a home. And home reminds us of our hope: Jesus. And He does not let our story end. Hope doesn’t let the story end. • • • • • #writtentospeak #createdtocreate #ChristianLiving #christiancreative #handlettering #dailydevotional #poetryofig #asyougo #faithquote #igpoetry #littlereminders #faithpost #poets #madewords #writer #write #quote #quotes #hope #easter #ashwednesday #lent

February 23, 2023