Beauty for Ashes: deformity, unexpected words, fuel for hope
“You have beautiful hands.” I didn't know what to say. No one had ever told me that. Yet, here this seasoned shopkeeper in a tiny Colorado mountain town was telling me I had beautiful hands. In my more confident moments, I can imagine God saying those words. After all, God sees beyond my gnarly fingers and rheumatoid nodules that disfigure my hands after nearly 50 years of rheumatoid arthritis. But who would see—and a stranger at that—beyond the abnormalities to the life God
A Way in the Wilderness
God will make a way
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me By a roadway in the wilderness, He'll lead me
And rivers in the desert will I see
Heaven and Earth will fade but His Word will still remain
And He will do something new today Born out of heartache, singer Don Moen penned these words on a flight to his young nephew’s funeral. The truths of Isaiah 43:19 saturate his lyrics: Behold, I will do a new thing; now i
