Father Barron sends daily Lent reflections y'all. An excerpt:
We've
heard it often; it's probably emblazoned in our minds-but we need to
hear it again: "The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a
living being." On Ash Wednesday, we hear echoes of this in the words,
"Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return."
Today
we are reminded that our lives come from God. Our very existence comes
from God. We are owed nothing. We have nothing coming to us. Every
breath we take is a reminder of our dependency upon God; every beat of
our heart is a reminder that God is the Lord.
As
we begin our Lenten journey, let us take a few minutes to reflect on
the reality that without God we are nothing and to give thanks that God
loved us into being.
