for dust you are, and dust you shall return..

(title Genesis 3:19)


I went to an Ash Wednesday service this evening. I've never been to one, but I thought it would be a good way to learn more about how "others worship/do church."
Here's how it went down: The reverend had some ashes (symbolically burnt palms from the preceding palm Sunday) and rubbed them on my forehead in the sign of a cross. It was meant to be "a public act of humility, admitting that I was a sinner." During this time, the organist played the wonderfully known "Just As I Am." And, as Tony Campolo once said, "The people sang Just As I Am, they came just as they are, and left just as they were!!"

In between the Holy Eucharist, the Sursum Corda and the Epiclesis...TANGENT!!!
CHEESE AND CRACKERS...What is all this stuff, so many rituals and standings and sittings, no wonder I lost focus of why I was really there!!! Oh yeah, before the tangent I was going to say that Communion was taken because everyone else did. A great message, but it was lost in religion.