Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.

While the world often wants us to confirm an ideology of self, God teaches a reliance of Him. Our own strength, wisdom that we have, or even intelligence that we try to rely on - all of this seems small when compared to the creativeness of our Creator.

Exodus - a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people. From the Greek preposition  ek/ex  (ἐκ/ἐξ), meaning "out of," and noun  hodos  (ὁδός), meaning "road,"     2Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.  3His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. Mark 9:2&3 (NKJV)   There are ov