<html><body><div>Well, it didn't like my attempt.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a reduced part 2!</div><div><br></div><div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>Love – and today we’re called to
think forward to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the climaxes of Lent five
weeks away – Love means putting the other at the centre of life, whether it’s a
single human being, or a group of human beings, or all human beings – or whether
it’s God whom we see in that human being, or group: Love, no matter what the
cost, is recognizing the needs of the other and, at the same time, discovering
that we have the ability and opportunity to live that selfless love in so many
ways.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>The final verse of the Gospel is one
that sticks with me. It’s so familiar, yet either we forget it or we try to
fudge. “Where your treasure is,” where you put your emphasis in your heart, <b><u>THAT’S</u></b> where you’re going to
live, that’s what’s going to motivate and drive you.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>So, receiving the Ashes on our
foreheads is a way of accepting all of life, and saying that we wish to
transform it.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>Jan Richardson writes so well on
spiritual matters. This is what she offers for this day.</span></p>
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