Ash Wednesday
A Divine
Conflagration
... from Ashes
Come
... let us know this day, transfiguration in fire!
From the ashes
of penance let a conflagration arise ... let it rise up as
incense born on a deafening wind by Angels to the very Altar
of God – from ashes, to fire, through utter
immolation!
Let this be our
holocaust to God this day, the acceptable sacrifice – the
conflagration of the self, sealed in the pledge of ashes
upon us, a dark remembrance of dust beneath the breath of
God ... that imbues it with life; life given to be
surrendered this day that it may be transfigured by being
vanquished, springing forth as light from the dark and ashen
recesses of sin. The surrender that is the victory, the
unquenchable fire of love that is the aftermath of ash! The
dying that brings life, from the life that brought us death.
Today ... today
shall be like no other. We have gathered to ourselves our
sorrow as dry sheaves are gathered to the fire. The world
this day shall be pulled down behind us! We will not turn
back nor grieve its passing. Not this day. We are sealed.
Sealed with ash and set afire with consuming love that will
leave no dross and not the smoldering of an ember. We will
make our offering to God, not in part, nor by parcel, but in
a holocaust of ourselves ... so total, so consuming, that
its only pledge can be ash ... and so with ashes we are
sealed.
This day we
behold the end of all things ... that we may one day see
their renewal in love, by Him, behold! , Who makes all things
new!
Pledge unto
pledge. Ash unto ash, Dust unto dust. And it is driven by
the breath of God ... scattered into unrelenting night only
to uncover the image within that is the breathless beauty of
God Himself!
Oh, blessed
ashes of our creation! ... more blessed ashes of our re-creation
in nothing less than God!
Seize this day!
It is a day of transfiguration ... in God!
Oh, holy day!
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