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We Are Dust The Lenten
journey, with its climax in Holy Week and Good Friday and Easter, is
about participating in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Put somewhat
abstractly, this means dying to an old identity--the identity conferred
by culture, by tradition, by parents, perhaps--and being born into a
new identity--an identity Put slightly
more concretely, this path of death and resurrection, of radical centering
in God, may mean for some of us that we need to die to specific things
in our lives--perhaps to a behavior or a pattern of behavior that has
become destructive or dysfunctional; perhaps to a relationship that
has ended or gone bad; perhaps to an unresolved grief that needs to
be let go of; perhaps to a career You can
even die to deadness, and this dying is also oftentimes a daily rhythm
in our lives--that daily occurrence that happens to some of us as we
remind ourselves of the reality of God in our relationship to God;
that reminder that can take us out of ourselves, lift us out of our
confinement, take away our feeling of being --from "Taking
Jesus Seriously" Read the text in its entirety. For a daily devotion, visit SIGNPOSTS |
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