Join us for Holy Week 2026!
Resurrection does not erase the scars of the wilderness; it transforms them. Today, the shattered pieces of Ash Wednesday are revealed as a whole vessel, mended with the gold of God’s glory. We celebrate that we are stronger and more beautiful for having been broken.
Look for resurrection sprouting in the cracks of your own story! Trace your scars and see how they have been filled with gold. Alleluia!
Ritual action:
Trace your scars: Use a gold marker or yellow ribbon to mark the "cracks" in a stone or even on your own palm.
Proclaim: Say out loud, "My scars are filled with gold. Alleluia!"
Gerry Grubbs
I am one
Of the broken
Ones whose
Heart was
Mended
With gold
Gerry Grubbs is a contemporary American poet and practicing attorney based in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose work often explores the intersection of the ordinary and the divine through a lens of spiritual mysticism.