"Dust to Dust"
Ash Wednesday.C.25
Words from the Committal in the Burial Office
The Rev. Melanie McCarley
I once visited the apartment of a distant relative. She announced—without apology—that she had given up dusting. She just let it accumulate. “It’s going to do that anyway, so I just let it.” she said.
I was a young person who, at the time, took no joy in cleaning, so I listened to this pronouncement with a good deal of interest—thinking, no doubt, that I would use this to my advantage when asked to do some housecleaning by my parents.