Dust and Ashes

Dust and Ashes.

Dust is what you end up with when things are crushed.

Ashes are what you are left with after things are burnt.

There is no better place to learn about life than when you are sitting "in dust and ashes".

For the dust and ashes are life's way of teaching you to ask and answer that single most important question: "What is real?"

I have learned in life, you can put your faith, pin your hopes, pour your love into something, but that alone does not make it real.

When life reduces your faith, hope and love into dirt and ashes, what do you do?


You look for a better faith.

You look for a surer hope.

You look for a truer love.

You get up.

You shake the dust off your feet.

You rise from the ashes.

And you try again...