Healthy Living
Ash-Free
I often laugh
aloud at
myself
because I wonder
eagerly
at the thought: When I
unraveled, was
the quantity of ash
in my past
fairly equivalent in its
ugliness to the quality of my
loveliness today,
in this blessed
new day when
God has so
obviously called this
day mine and has
surely given me
so much beauty for so many ashes?
it’s easy to laugh at me,
good medicine for my
heart -- this contrite heart,
tried, but alas, ash-free
!
© Joyce Pool
Isaiah 61:3-4 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them BEAUTY FOR ASHES, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, THAT HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
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