"We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden." ~ Joni Mitchell
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian season of Lent. Traditionally it is a day of penitence, prayer, fasting, and reflection on human sinfulness and mortality. Countless people will attend liturgies that express these things and then end by having ashes in the shape of a cross smudged on their foreheads.
Several years ago I began observing Ash Wednesday in a different way that has subsequently changed my experience of it's meaning. In short I have moved from Ash Wednesday to what I might call Wonderful Wednesday. The basic, yet dramatic, shift is from a focus on sin and mortality to an appreciation of goodness and immortality. The experience, called Stardust to Dust, is a self-paced pilgrimage of stations that tell the deep time story of creation in readings, photographs, and music in a darkened candlelit room.
Tonight at Trinity Clearwater Presbyterian church, the Stardust to Dust experience is again available for those in our area from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. I invite you to come experience what is a truly unique, non-traditional way to observe Ash (Wonder-filled) Wednesday.
For those who can't attend I'm providing a couple of links below that include the program and readings at each station.
Have a Wonder-filled (Ash) Wednesday!
Stardust to Dust Program
Stardust to Dust Stations
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