Return

The word today is return.

This is an image of the palms used on Palm Sunday in our church and the ashes used last night for Ash Wednesday.  Sunday's palms are Wednesday's ashes.

Our pride, our arroagance, our sin is turned to ash.  On Ash Wednesday, we endeavor to return to God, just as the palsm are returned to the dust and ash.

Perhaps it is in the reminder of our human-ness that we are able to return to the divine.