Lent time to take heed: A season of tears and ashes: a promise for all aching hearts

Notes: "Lent, season of tears and ashes, time to take heed of what happens between one Ash Wednesday and the next, to what happens in any year, has happened in all the years that God has given and we creatures have spent". "With Jesus in that silence we begin to hear first faint notes of an approaching promise. .... A promise for all the aching hearts hearts who long for something other than tears and ashes. A promise made in the Jordan and kept at Golgotha, to meet us, to wipe away every tear, to give a garland instead of ashes, to lead us to creation's homecoming and our own".