For our Christian siblings around the world, today is Ash Wednesday, a day to ponder, among other things, the mortality of all living beings. Rather than be a sad occasion, though, it is an opportunity to fully embrace all of what it means to be human.
Lora Brandis writes this prayer for the day: “Dear holy one, mark us for all to see that we are connected by our mortality. Impermanence, mortality, ashes, dust: this is the truth of being human. Remind us that this truth is what connects us. Remind us, also, that from love we come and to love we will return.”
What is something that you fully embrace when pondering your own mortality?