Ash Wednesday 2020

And I read a book called the twits by Roald Dahl to my oldest Hollis. And it is about this terrible couple Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who are cruel to one another as well as to everyone and everything else in their lives.

And I read a book called the twits by Roald Dahl to my oldest Hollis. And it is about this terrible couple Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who are cruel to one another as well as to everyone and everything else in their lives.

Mrs. Twit was described as being once beautiful, but because of her horrible thoughts over the years she became uglier and uglier.

The story is about their disintegration. From former beauty to ugliness.

The Twits had trained monkeys that they tortured.

Eventually the trained monkeys managed to escape. And the monkeys played a trick on the twits.

They went into their house and glued all their furniture to the ceiling so that when the twits walked in to their house they thought they were upside down, so they stood on their heads to be right side up.

But what they didn’t know was that before they went into their house glue was placed on their heads so when they stood on their heads they got stuck upside down.

They began berated one another and being nasty to one another as they had the whole story and eventually began to shrink and shrink their head into disintegrated into the floor and their neck and then legs and then feet until they were completely disintegrated.

Needless to say, this was not one of those children books where the antagonist was just misunderstood and everyone became friends in the end.

No it was as if the life the twits, their cruel and nasty lives slowly ate them alive until they were no more.

The best phrase I can think of to describe this book is “The wages of sin is death.”

They became more and more disintegrated. Ash Wednesday is that time where we come to acknowledged our sin and mortality. A time where we remember that the wages of sin is death.

The wages of sin is death.

Ash Wednesday is that time where we come to acknowledged our sin and mortality. The season of Lent is a time of fasting.

What the twits needed was to repent, they need to turn from their way living that led to disintegration, and turn to life.