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

I am creating my own blog at the suggestion of others. I don't know what each blog will bring, but it is my prayer that each one will be encouraging and edifying to those who read them while bringing glory to the one who bestows beauty for ashes.  Our lives are stories and my story is one of redemption ~ a story of beauty for ashes.  Just as promised in Isaiah 61, God has comforted me in my mourning. He has given me a beautiful headdress instead of ashes; the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit.  All this that I might be called an oak of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified!  How amazing and how great is His love!  Thank you, Father, for bestowing beauty for ashes!