RESTORATION.

This is a month of restoration for myself and for many people I know around me right now. I think of where I was one year ago with its specific circumstances and it bring me to my knees and many tears in my eyes.
The beauty of restoration? Out of great brokenness and pain and shame comes something beautiful and NEW. It is not a piece of pottery badly glued back together; it is a completely new pot; a wholesome offering, a new heart. Regenerated. Renewed. Revived.

"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." Is. 43:19
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"You bring restoration
You bring restoration
You bring restoration
to my soul

You've taken my pain
You call me by a new name,
You've taken my shame
And in its place You give me joy

You take my mourning
turn it into dancing,
You take my weeping
turn it into laughing,
You take my mourning
turn it into dancing,
You take my sadness
turn into joy

Halleleujah!
Halleleujah!
You make all things new
You make all things new. "