A Post for Maundy Thursday
Today is the day which is traditionally referred to as Maundy Thursday. If we were all able to be with one another I know I would be at the Maundy Thursday service at Highlands this evening. It is one of my favorite. The other one I really like is the Ash Wednesday service at Highlands. They both have a sacred feel to them. On Ash Wednesday we heard a poem read to us called "Blessing of the Dust" by Jan Richardson. It goes like this: "Blessing of the Dust" All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn you face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial. Did you not know what the Holy One can do with dust? This is the day we freely say we are scorched. This is the hour we are marked by what has made it through the burning. This is the moment we ask for the blessing that lives within the ancient ashes, that makes its home inside the soil of thi