Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return
So let us be marked,
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked,
not for shame.
Let us be marked,
not for false humility,
or for thinking we are less than we are.
But for claiming what God can do,
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff,
of which the world is made,
and the stars that blaze in our bones,
and the galaxies that spiral inside the smudge we bear –

Jan Richardson