Okay, it’s been a hot minute, but we are back. It is Ash Wednesday, so we may go up to receive ashes today, and we might not know what we’ll get. You might get the classics, the X marks the spot, the perfectionist, the Harry Potter, the NFL, the Picasso, or the Twinsie, or you could get the double wide. Whatever you receive, whatever is on the exterior. The reality is that you have already been claimed within the interior and within yourself. That Jesus Christ, from the moment of your baptism, you’ve been claimed by him. We place ashes on our foreheads to remind us that, yeah, we are broken, we are sinners, and we have temptations. We don’t like things about ourselves, but Ash Wednesday also reminds us that with that cross, you have been claimed, and you are his.
This is Spirit Juice. Happy Ash Wednesday. Peace.
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