ASHES/DUST, DUST/ASHES

Frankly, I am not happy about the dust thing. The story just doesn't hold water. If you go to Genesis 2:7 it says, "...then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, ..." No WOman, just man.Then a few verses later God decides to form woman from one of the ribs of the man. This creation story just stinks. It puts woman in the position of being the possession of man aside from being an afterthought when all else had been created.

Better is the creation story in Genesis 1:27 which says, "So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Here it is separate and equal -- in the image of God. I eversomuch more like being God's image that dust.

And so into Lent we go.