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Change Your Mind

On Wednesday this week I was passing through my regular blog reads and stopped at one of my favorite sites where I was drawn in and touched by the Spirit through the words that were spoken.

It is always a blessing to have the heart be spoken to, the intellect humbled and to have the reality of who we are put before us.

Ash Wednesday. Though not Catholic and having never had ashes on my forehead on that day I find that the call to do so is strong. “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” is the opening line on that day's post at It Takes A Church ( http://bolsinger.blogs.com/) .

Lent, how many of us give it anything more than a passing thought these days? How much did Christ prepare for, pray about, and anguish through the days before his death? What would we do if we knew the day and time of our demise as humans?

Maybe we should take some time in this season of Lent to contemplate our demise. And while doing so, work through the challenge of keeping the faith in the victorious resurrection that He provided us the example of. Imagine what Jesus went through as thoroughly man knowing His death was just before Him, knowing as God that this is the will of the Father, being man and having to live the faith needed to go through that ideal, put Himself wholly into the Father's hands believing that the Glory would Rise again on the third day.

Dwell on that and see "the starting point for all spiritual progress, all spiritual attention, all spiritual discipline, is in the acknowledgement of our own genuine humanity and receiving God’s generous mercy." as noted at It Takes a Church.

Pastor Bolsinger says what is needed: humility and grace, the truth of our mortality and the gift of eternal life, ...

"The focus of Ash Wednesday and Lent is repentance. Repentance is literally to “change your mind.”

"And it all begins with this: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. You are human, you are mortal, you are deeply dependent on the God who formed your body from the humus of the earth and breathed life into you with his kiss. God has come to you, in Jesus, O Creature, and called you to have life eternal with him."

I am thankful for being led to this site on Wednesday, Ash Wednesday for as I contemplate on these things, my mind is changed.

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posted by livingthedream @ 8:42 AM