The measure of our days (Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
It's hard for me to grasp that mortality is my fate, too.
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"You are dust, and to dust you shall return." These words will be spoken millions of times on Ash Wednesday, in dozens of languages, by people of every ethnicity, to people of every age. Just as they have been for centuries.
