A Lenton Prayer for God to bring beauty from ashes, written by Debbie McDaniel and read by Kelly Givens.

To bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise

instead of a spirit of despair. Isaiah 61.3. As we walk through this season of Lent, we're reminded

again that sometimes life is hard. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it's dark, and it leaves

its mark like ashes of grief in the deepest parts of our souls, where no one but God can really

see. Yet even in times of ashes and struggle, even when we think we've been forgotten

in our seasons of waiting, God is still there, and he is bigger.

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