Beauty in the Broken

From the world's view something "broken" has a certain "ugliness" to it. But God can turn such ugliness into great beauty. Today, I saw a tree ripped up from its roots dragging its branches into a rushing river and out of those dead, broken branches is springing life. Beautiful, brand new branches growing tiny green leaves.God offers us many promises. I believe that this beautiful new life growing from the ugly brokeness of an old dying tree is promise that beauty can lie within the most broken ugly people as well. Me, for example, once I was dead in my sin and even had given up on searching to find HIM to ask for help, being numb with pain and all alone and yet through that darkness and deadness of my life new, beautiful purpose rises. A purpose that leads a broken dying life to a life in Christ. One that reaches out into the darkness, grabs a falling, pitiful hand and holds on with a strength that can only be God's.