There will be fun for all ages. A caller will teach us and lead us through a number of basic Scottish folk dances. One college student remembering the joys of church suppers as a young boy said it was just like that when he tried Scottish country dancing for the first time. Come on Shrove Tuesday for pancakes and dancing before then next day's beginning to the season of Lent. Ash Wednesday marks our common human need A friend once commented that it is not our strengths that we hold in common with others but our human weakness or need.
Life is fragile and precious.
All of this we commemorate on Ash Wednesday. Ashes will be administered to those who wish. It is voluntary, and signifies our weakness, penitence, life's finitude, and our dependence upon God. Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, a forty day period prior to Easter. Lent is a helpful season in which to reflect, to learn something about giving up and letting go, or taking on a particular service for others.