“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter 3:8 NIV
Catholics are reminded of their fleeting nature on Ash Wednesday when the priest applies a smudge of ashes to their forehead while saying “Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
This is a potent reminder of our mortality and the fact that we are nothing more than a relatively short-lived carbon-based life form, and eventually that living carbon will go back to the earth an…
