Prayer – Drew Downs

More Private and Public — on the paradox of Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.

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When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.

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Then one is praying for new life. Hope. And everything that can come from it. Joy. And everyone who can experience it. And justice for all.

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We usually talk about miracles in a positive light. But what about the stuff that freaks us out? And why does it?

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In Easter 7A, we get another example of Jesus praying in public. We’re invited to observe so that we learn.

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Praying in public is often treated like a natural part of evangelism, even if it is done with unnatural intention.