Beauty For Ashes

Y’all. We made it. It’s 2021. Did you yell Jumanji at midnight like I did? I could not wait for that game to be over. A year plagued with natural disasters, economic collapse, murders, death, protests, a pandemic, and a bombing to wrap up the year. It was chaos on every level. I stopped watching the news, I stopped listening to the radio and podcasts, I took a hiatus from social media. Jesus was the only one I could trust. My peace rested in worship music.

After having such a tumultuous year, I can only resolve in my mind that God is going to restore all that was taken from us in 2020. The stress, anxiety, insecurity, and sickness that plagued us last year has to submit to the will of its creator. 

Isaiah 61:3 says God will give us beauty for ashes, joy for mourning and praise for heaviness. Let me encourage you my friends. God was with you during the layoff, he was with you in the classroom, the living room, and the hospital room. God was there at the graveyard. Allow him to carry you through your moments of fear, anxiety, grief and loss. He will give you beauty for your ashes. Have faith my friends. This too shall pass. Let 2021 be your year of restoration. 

Happiness in the New Year,

Dawn