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1. Ash Wednesday
Dying stars threw off their dust and suns and planets were formed. On earth, volcanic clouds washed into seas. Green shoots sprang up and sunlight filtered down. Then sandy ocean depths bred teeming fish; bright birds plucked seeds from the skies.
In the garden, animals ate the fruits of dust-made soil, till it all went wrong.
“Where did you come from Daddy?” asked the boy.
“God made me, from dust.”
“Mommy too?”
They strode the hot desert sand together. “I was born from man’s flesh and the breath of God.”
“Then I’m made of stardust and God-dust,” said the boy.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 “…all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in many Christian traditions. The priest forms a cross with ashes on our foreheads, reminding us “… that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.” And the scientists tell us it’s true—our every atom was once a part of something else.
The scientists say that light came first, then water and then plants before the sun shone on earth. They tell us fish and birds evolved before mammals and man.
Should we call it coincidence, or evidence of God, that the ancient words of the Bible prove so modern?
©2008, Sheila Deeth
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Thank you immensely !!!