Friday, October 22, 2010

Beautiful

"[God] has made everything beautiful in its time."   (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

The reminder of a story I loved as a child, "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen, is what gave me the encouragement that I needed today.  What a wonderful story of the "duckling" who grew up thinking it was ugly only to be transformed into a beautiful swan.

I have the hope that we as believers will, in the day of glory, be transformed from the ugliness of fallen sinfulness into true beauty, which is the reflection of our Creator.  That's the ultimate beauty for ashes story.

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