This year, an ancient symbol saw its significance magnified all the more on a tragic Ash Wednesday.

Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.

Even when we are unaware of the acts of God, He continues to operate in our lives with the ineffable, inscrutable power of his love.

Jesus has felt our sorrow, carried our burdens, sweated through our labors, taken our punishment onto himself.

Perhaps the gift of the rough seas is that they force us to acknowledge our utter dependence on the One who loves us.

Naming God in all things.