Beauty for Ashes
Recently in a ministry time in Kansas City during one of my classes, the instructor asked us to just wait and ask the Lord to show us something. The first thing I saw was a poppy. You know the fake kind, like the veteran's give out for donations and you hang from your rear view mirror. At least my mom always did that. I wondered "Why a poppy?" and then the next picture that came to mind was one that I had recently seen on facebook. My friends Smitty and Donna Brewer had gone to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and posted this incredible picture of poppies that overlooked the fields where so many had died for our freedom and the deliverance of the world from a horrible dictator. I found out later through researching this that poppies were prevalent in the fields because disasters and wars had unearthed buried poppy seeds from decades before. It was the bombs, and the digging of trenches and even the burial of their dead soldiers that caused the land