2026-02-18 Ash Wednesday Memento Mori by The Rev Anders Edstrom
About this episode
A message reflecting on Ash Wednesday and the themes of mortality and wisdom from Psalm 90.
Ash Wednesday message from Greenfield Presbyterian Church in Berkley, MI. The Scripture is Psalm 90:1-12 Psalm 90:1-12 BOOK IV (Psalms 90–106) Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. 90 Lord, you have been our help, generation after generation. 2 Before the mountains were born, before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world— from forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God. 3 You return people to dust, saying, “Go back, humans,” 4 because in your perspective a thousand years are like yesterday past, like a short period during the night watch. 5 You sweep humans away like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. 6 True, in the morning it thrives, renewed, but come evening it withers, all dried up. 7 Yes, we are wasting away because of your wrath; we are paralyzed with fear on account of your rage. 8 You put our sins right in front of you, set our hidden faults in the light from your face. 9 Yes, all our days slip away because of your fury; we finish up our years with a whimper. 10 We live at best to be seventy years old, maybe eighty, if we’re strong. But their duration brings hard work and trouble because they go by so quickly. And then we fly…
People in this episode
Host: Anders Edstrom
Topics covered
- Ash Wednesday
- Memento Mori
- Psalm 90
Keywords
- Greenfield Presbyterian Church
- Berkley, MI
- religion
- spirituality
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Scripture
Places: Berkley, MI
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