© Tara L. Hovis
He'll take your sorrow, and bring you joy.
He'll take your emptiness, and fill you up.
Beauty for ashes, beauty for ashes
He'll take your worries, and give you his peace.
He'll take your worthlessness and make you priceless.
He'll take your silent heart, and bring you laughter.
Beauty for ashes, beauty for ashes
And in the darkest part of the night
When you are alone in the rain
He'll break through with his light
And show you the way
When you're walking through the refining fire
And there's no where else to turn
He'll be there
To bring you through
Beauty for ashes, beauty for ashes
Copyright 2006, Tara Hovis
I wrote this poem after encountering the phrase "beauty for ashes" just about every day for a week! To me, "beauty for ashes" means that in order for God to bless you, sometimes you have to let something else go. Someone once told me "You have to let go of the quarters so you can grab the dollars raining down." How often do we miss out on God's blessings because we are too scared, too prideful, too worried or too attached to something? My desire is to give up myself, and completely abandon myself to Him. It is only when we learn we are nothing that He can make us into something."
Construction method was by freezer paper piecing, machine quilted by myself and hand beaded. -Tara