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Beauty for Ashes

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Fred D
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In 2019 the Swan Lake fire devastated over 170,000 acres of Kenai Peninsula pristine forest. This past weekend my wife and I drove through that area on our way to visit friends … Nature’s restorative power amazed us!

What was a barren landscape of charred, skeletal trees and smoldering ashes just seven years ago, now was springing back to life … Creation’s “beauty for ashes” version of the Lord’s Isaiah 61 :3 promise to whatever ‘fires’ we may encounter along our life’s journey.

Here’s a few pics of Nature’s indefatigable resiliency in the process of renewing a fire ravaged wilderness to its former beauty, and of yet untouched, vast stretches of Last Frontier primal real estate that graced our eyes in wonder … it’s where angels go on sabbatical 😊

The final pic is of a young security guard we found on duty when we arrived back home 😊

We R Blessed … May U B 2

Keep Looking Up ^ … His Best is Yet to Come!

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5 responses to “Beauty for Ashes”

  1. Fred D

    Thanks for your kind words Lori. All the best to you, and …

    Keep Looking Up ^ … His Best is Yet to Come!

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  2. Lori Pohlman

    Beautiful and inspiring! Glad I found you through Wynne’s blog.

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  3. Fred D

    You’re reading my life’s diary brother 😊

    So grateful our Abba restores beauty from our sin’s ashes in spite of ourselves.

    Be blessed, and …

    Keep Looking Up ^ … His Best is Yet to Come!

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  4. Gary Fultz

    Devastation to restoration pictures certainly resemble our lives when we let God do the restoring…. My self-restoration projects…not so much

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  5. C.A. Peterson

    I lived in North Kenai in the summer of 1972-fall ‘73! I remember the amazing forests that were easy to get lost in if you didn’t plan carefully!
    So sad to see so much of it gone, but it will be back!🤠

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