Ashes To Go!

If you’re free at 12.30 pm on Wednesday 17th February, join me round the cross outside St Germain’s for an ‘Ashes to Go’ event.  ‘What? What to go?’ I hear you cry!

The 17th February is the beginning of Lent – a time when we prepare for the joyous celebration of Easter.  In the UK, this season usually goes with moving from the closed up-ness of winter.  In winter the trees and the earth seem dead, and yet in this season new life breaks out from that seemingly dead place, with gorgeous spring flowers and every shade of green you can imagine.  It’s a gift we can’t make happen, but it does – year after year.

Lent is like that for people who worship Jesus – a time when we remember that even from the darkest of places inside of us, God can bring new life.  It’s a season when we focus not on making that happen, but on God who can change us into being fully who we were created to be.   Ash Wednesday (17 Feb) is the day our preparation begins.  We use ash made from last year’s palm crosses to remind ourselves that it’s not us, but God in us who has power to change us – just like in the story of creation God took dust from the earth and created people, so God continues to work with what we are and, if we are willing, transforms us into what we can become.

If you’d like to join our ‘Ashes to Go’ event, or even come and see what’s going on please join us round the cross outside church around 12.30 pm on Wednesday 17th February.