The Amazing Thing about Ordinary

Most people older than ten have faced some sort of tragedy. Some of us experienced horror younger than that.

A car accident or house fire

The death of a loved one

Parental divorce

Abuse, neglect, or abandonment

Suicide of a close friend

The list of bad things goes on and on. Yet we know that God redeems.

The Bible tells us in Isaiah 61:3 that He exchanges beauty for ashes, or as the Contemporary English Version writes, "The Lord has sent me to comfort those who mourn, especially in Jerusalem. He sent me to give them flowers in place of their sorrow, olive oil in place of tears, and joyous prai...