Beauty for Ashes

This is the time of tension between dying and birth...
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care
and not to care
Teach us to sit still...
And let my cry come unto Thee...
And pray to God to have mercy on us...-T.S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"

Beauty for ashes
A garment of praise for my heaviness
Beauty for ashes
Take this heart of stone and make it Yours