ash wednesday

Due to the vagueries of the international cricket schedule, I catch the morning service, on this first day of Lent. How soothing to know that it is all part of the divine agency; that we must learn to acknowledge our imperfections with the assistance of our fellow sinners; strive to correct our imperfections; put our gladrags and party clothes away for forty days and forty nights; forego pleasure; atone for sins; await the day we are reborn more perfect than before.