Ash Wednesday, Carbon Reflection

Check out this excellent Ash Wednesday reflection on Carbon from the Franciscan Action Network:

Our carbon ashes call us to penance as a reminder of the particular ways in which our relationship to creation needs healing. We speak of reducing our “carbon footprint” not because carbon is bad, but because our excessive use of carbon and other resources upsets the complex harmony of life on earth. God made carbon to be good. As holy water sanctifies the ashes we receive at Mass, may we allow Christ’s life in us to sanctify and renew our relationship with carbon, and all of creation, this Lent.

For the Complete Reflection:
http://www.franciscanaction.org/ashwednesday2010