Life is so beautiful yet fragile. 

This is just one of billions of ashes that floated  for miles from where it was burned in the Eaton fire. It landed at a job I’m working at. 

Yet when the love of God touches you in your sorrow, instead of crumbling like this ash, he carries you in the wind of his Spirit until he brings restoration, replacing the ashes of life in a fallen world, by exchanging them with the hope and promise of a beautiful future both now and forever. 

This is Jesus, demonstrating the true heart of the Father toward you, and what he accomplished when he came to give his life for yours. 

Matthew 12:20 TPT
He won’t brush aside the bruised and broken. He will be gentle with the weak and feeble, until his victory releases justice.

Isaiah 61:3 TPT
to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by YAHWEH as a living display of his glory.