(Photo by Randy Hobson)ĭuring the Ash Wednesday service, the Rev. Nikki Collins led worship on Ash Wednesday. “What I try to do now is add a new spiritual discipline.” “I don’t give stuff up anymore,” he says. He describes it as part of his “baptismal journey” of dying to old ways and rising to new life.
It’s a time for Jones to re-examine his faith, what it means that God has created him - and is reconciling and restoring his life. “It’s a little morbid at first,” he says, “but as I move fully into the Lent, it’s all about reclaiming who I am as a child of God, as God’s creation.” For Jones, Lent begins when he hears the words, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
Which is what Jones experiences now and is reminded of when the Lenten season begins. “My parents didn’t always show me my purpose - and love.” “We didn’t grow up celebrating Lent,” he says of his family’s faith tradition. In worship at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Center on March 6, Jones said he was reminded of how taken aback he was when he first began to encounter the season of Lent. LOUISVILLE – For Ray Jones, the acting director for Theology, Formation & Evangelism, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a personal journey, as it does for Christians around the world, into the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Staff at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville took part in worship on Ash Wednesday.
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