I am freezing my ashes off in Chicago where I am
interviewing for Calvary’s 2015/16 intern. I’ll tell you this. We would not be
doing ashes outside at the train station or on the street corner in Chicago.
First of all there aren’t any exposed foreheads and secondly Chicagoans have elevated
avoiding eye contact to an art form. Probably because they’re all rushing to
get indoors. To be fair I had some helpful (and even friendly) interactions today
including a very nice waiter who noticed the way I frowned at my bowl of chili
(it has BEANS!) and asked if I’d like some jalapenos. I’m finally warm or at
least my mouth is. The reminder of our mortality (Remember you are dust and to
dust you shall return) can only be fully heard and accepted when heard through
the promise of resurrection for all who are imprisoned by the fear of death.
Aubree Blomgren, yoga instructor extraordinaire, says it this way: the only reason
we dare to enter the corpse pose (Shavasana) is because we are confident we
will get up again. So today we acknowledge our death but are confident that in
Christ our end is but the beginning.
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