Lent is a season of looking forward, but also of looking back—retracing our steps, remembering where we have been, and the dust from which we come.
On Day 11 of our journey, we pause to time-shift a little, returning towards Ash Wednesday through the words of Sarah Agnew—poet, storyteller, and minister from Australia. Her prayer-poem invites us into the tension of Lent: the fragility of dust, the weight of reflection, and the grace that lingers even in the ashes.
Ash Wednesday reminds us that we are dust, but not just dust. We are held, shaped, and breathed into by a God who calls us deeper. What does it mean to carry that truth through the weeks of Lent? To walk with both sorrow and hope in our hands?
As we continue this Lenten journey, may Sarah’s words offer you space to reflect, to return, and to rest in the sacred mystery of it all.
