Isn't that like our God?

So, this Tuesday I was driving up to Salt Lake City to check out a opportunity of a place to stay (and work). As I drove I drove the same route we drove in June when we went up for vacation, and at one point in the trip there's an area that in June we all commented on how ugly it looked because the area had ben burned in a forest fire. I'm sure you've seen areas like that--burned out, black, dead, with skeletons standing, but other than that not too much vegetation.

Well, interesting enough this time when I drove through I noticed that instead of just ugly dead, dry skeletons, in it's place were the most beautiful fall colors--reds, golds, yellows, well you know. And, the thought crossed my mind that isn't that just like our God? To take something that's totally burned out, used up, and wasted, and make it the most beautiful spot in the forest?

And, doesn't He do that with our lives too? Doesn't He specialize even in taking our lives when they're the most messed up--when they're dry, dead, skeletons and make something beautiful out of them--and not just beautiful, but amazingly beautiful.

I'm banking on that fact, are you?