With the distribution of ashes on the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday reminds us of our mortality, "from dust you came, and to dust you shall return," a prompt that life is short and to be lived to the fullest. Increasingly, that age-old lesson is taking on new meaning during the season anticipating Easter, a time which is becoming more about morality — less about what Christians give up, and more about what they are doing to be God’s church in the world.
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