sorrow each season
beginning in ashes
the palms of Sunday
burned
my lungs filled with the
smoke
the sweetness of Sunday
a memory, broken
the spell of palms
of the joy, hosannas
broken, burst
the dust of the earth
the ashes all that
remains
of our cries to the King
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March
6, 2014
my
lungs filled with the smoke
March
6, 2014
the sorrow of the ashes
burning last year’s palms
hymn, “Sunday’s Palms Are
Wednesday’s Ashes” TFWS #2138
&
Worship Theme – “Ash Wednesday”
Prelude
Unison Prayer
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 (CEB)
Joel 2:12-17a (CEB)
Prayer of
Confession
Words of
Assurance
Imposition of
Ashes
Communion
Lenten
poem:”Changer: A Lenten Poem”
by Adrienne
Sparrow Trevathan
my
earlier poem, “within the sweetness of the smoke”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s
Whisper” blog
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
March
5, 2014
Ash
Wednesday
Lent
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