22Feb/090
…and to Dust You Shall Return
Tweet ThisA very young couple (the husband was 26 and the wife 24) and the baby that they were expecting were killed yesterday here in Granite City. It's such a sad - but unfathomably common - story: the accident in which they lost their lives involved two other vehicles, both driven by drunk drivers.
I didn't know either of them personally (the man, for example, was a year younger than my sister), but reading through their Facebook walls (linked above), I now see how many mutual friends we had. And the beautiful life they shared with those around them.
Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday, and we probably won't hear the words "Remember that from dust/ashes you came, and to dust you shall return." We'll more likely hear the more commonly used (in modern days) Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel."
The point, though, is that Lent is a time to re-evaluate.
We simply don't know when we'll be called from this life to the next, or under what circumstances, so we must always be ready.
In addition, though, sometimes we don't realize how closely connected we all are. Seeing the shared friends I had with this couple, I realize they may have even been at a wedding, or a dinner, or something else I may have attended at one time or another.
All of the people to whom we are so close without even knowing - the people we may inadvertently show anger at while driving, or cut off with our cart in the grocery store line. The people we take when we act irresponsibly, getting behind the wheel of a car when we're in no shape to drive.
So this Lent, let's remember to be faithful to the Gospel - Jesus' Good News of salvation, and that we will return to Him. Sometimes sooner than we know, or think that we would like.
Hug each other.
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