Ash Wednesday, 2007
Here are a couple of pieces I did for Ash Wednesday: First, a "children's message" (I'll try to post the picture here soon...) Today is ASH WEDNESDAY – what does that mean? Tonight those people who come back for our worship service will have a cross marked on their forehead with ashes and oil. That’s weird.... But – you know Easter is coming, right? it’s a little more than six weeks away. Tonight we start a special time in the church called LENT. The idea of LENT is to really think about how we live – how we treat other people – how we treat the world around us – and how we treat God. Has anybody in here done anything wrong in the past year? Boy, I have. You know, I don’t like to admit it, but I’ve done stuff that I shouldn’t have done TODAY. God says that’s sin, right? If you wanted to make a picture of sin, what would it look like? Here’s mine. It’s black and yukky and I don’t like to look at it... I wish there was some way I could get rid of it... And there is. I c...