It is something we all have experience with–the dust of our lives. We miss the mark of God’s best for us when we believe the illusion that our dustiness is only in part of us.

Our lives are not…as shiny clean as we like to think they are. Our lives are not free of irritants as much as we like to think they are. Our lives are not ours to control as much as we like to think they are.

Sometimes our dust literally takes over our whole lives, like it does when we redo our homes. Spiritually, we cannot escape it.

…Lent is an invitation to live honestly with our dust.

from “Remember Our Dust” (in Christian Reflection: Lent, Robert Kruschwitz, ed.)