How God Wants to Transform Your Brokenness into Beauty (see Isaiah 61:3) Perhaps there are moments in your story that feel like ashes—broken dreams, rejection, discouragement, guilt, or wounds deeper than others can see. Are there scenes of disappointment, pain or loss? Yet it is precisely into these places that God speaks an astonishing promise: “…to bestow on YOU a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spi