Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday’s service can be a downer. The reminder of ashes to ashes, dust to dust, doesn’t exactly make you want to shout or dance. There are many ways to draw Lenten analogies. One I hold on to dearly is the thought that over the last year the distance between God and myself has gotten further. Lent is the time of year when I begin an annual journey or pilgrimage back to God. Each day of fasting, prayer, mediation, and worship is a step in our journey until we arrive on Easter morning at the foot of the Cross. We are all his children and God asks us to take the journey home this year.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.