More Ashes

Allusions to my theme this year seem to be everywhere I turn.  In just reading the back cover for the book "Maine", it asks "Can Love Rise from the Ashes...?", as in introduces the stories of how several people recover from the devastation in the aftermath of the Civil War. 

While I did offer my thorn as a burnt offering to the LORD, I do hope that beauty may rise from the ashes some day.  Amen.