Beauty From Ashes

taken from
When Life Breaks You
Samantha Reed

Dear Lord, I can't see how good will come from my pain. But You are my creative Creator and I know You can work masterpieces out of muck. Today, I recommit my hope and faith in You, and I'm looking up to You. Thanks for kneeling beside me so faithfully. In Jesus' Name, Amen

My heart was burned and the ashes seemed a proper place to fall......Yet I knew, wallowing in the embers would be the death of me as well.....: God knew this too. He unwaveringly knelt next to me, extending a helping-hand up. He promised:
Give Me the ashes; I'll do something with them. Something beautiful.

Something Beautiful

Something beautiful
Something good, All my confusion
He understood
All I had to offer Him, was brokenness and strife
But he made
Something Beautiful, of my life. 

If there ever were dreams that were lofty and noble
they were my dreams from the start
And the hopes for life's best
Were the hopes that I harbored down deep in my heart
My dreams turned to ashes
My castles all crumbed
My fortune turned to loss, So 
I wrapped in all in the rags of my life
And laid it at the cross 

You may feel like your life is ugly and insignificant right now. But sometimes things that appear ugly just need the right climate to grow.  Isaiah said he will give you beauty for ashes. God knew you would be burnt by life’s experiences. But he also knew he could replace that burnt out mess with something beautiful.
Isaiah 61