Name: Ashes
Duration: P00H02M01S
Description: In preparation of Ash Wednesday - a few words.

Ashes

by WICK

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In preparation of Ash Wednesday - a few words.

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Ashes start speaking
Freaking everything around them
Not afraid, Not surprised, it's not odd
But at the same time, blown away by the God
whose image comes reflected
Brightly throughout creation,
the signal booming loud Strongly celebrating,
but they change stations
Ashes forget whose breath they've been given
They stop living. Start dying.
But lying and telling each other it's life.
War and sickness, suffering and strife
Like a knife through the heart of their creator
Who created them for something greater,
This facsimile of life lasts for the moment but the moment fades
Nights and days see the hands wave goodbye of
Generations who learned their lesson
But a little too late. But not we.
We read. We listen. We hear. We learn.
We grow. We know. That our breath?
It's not our own. It's not ours to own.
It's a seed that's been sown.
We've been given this breath –
a sample, a sliver, a glimpse of something greater
Far greater. So we breathe.

We – ashes with parts, made of arms and legs,
bodies, brains and hearts, we breathe
And when we breathe, we breathe well,
For the Spirit that promises within us to dwell,
Moves, grows, morphs and transforms,
What we see, and cannot see, seems like a mystery
But lived as fact. Not fact like dictionary,
But fact like Breath Brings Life
To a lung gasping for air, in despair, treated unfair, but Loved.
Really Loved. And this love – Agape,
has given us a way to say this day:
Though I'm ashes and clay, I'm eternal.
As words are said, and they mark my forehead I know
These ashes are going to breathe slow,
Breathe deep. Breathe forever.
Come storms or calm weather I will live
like I know what I am - Just a man
and of God

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released February 8, 2016

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WICK Champaign, Illinois

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