So, I did not get a picture posted today, because I accidentally left my camera at school, and I don't want to cheat. But I did take a picture today. It is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. We had a "Restoration" project meeting tonight. I ran the worship time. I was really nervous. It only went OK. My ideas were cool, but I did not feel a very good vibe from the room. In fact, I think if anything, I bored people. But, anyway, we gave everyone a disposable camera with the assignment of documenting (in some creative way) their sacrifice they made for Lent. My first picture was of ashes. We wrote prayers for change in our hearts on little scraps of paper, and then burned those to use as the ashes we put on our foreheads. I used the burned scraps of paper as the subject for my first photo. Once lent is over, I will try to post all of the images here as a set.
For the worship time that I planned, I took everyone slowly through T.S. Elliots "Ash Wednesday" poem (which is fairly cryptic). Really it is an incredible poem.
You can read it here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ash-wednesday/
While we were reading through the poem, I put images on the screen that reflected the passages. My favorites were from "State of Minds" flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stateofmind_77/sets/274589/
They illustrate the poem. Beautiful.
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